I think the federal government needs to look at working with band councils on what works in specific communities. The first thing you have to look at is the kind of hopelessness you are creating by asking people to live on $9,000 or $12,000 a year in an isolated community, where food costs twice as much as it does here in Ottawa. That's the first thing you need to look at, and I think you go from there.
On February 21st, 2017. See this statement in context.