That's just entirely the problem. We shouldn't have to go to government, because I hear my friend's party in the House often saying we need to spend more money or we need to put more money at this. But ultimately it's a department telling us where the money needs to go, and not our having our own money to do what we need off our land. And ultimately, I see that as a long-term solution, where a bureaucrat in Ottawa is not making a decision for the health needs of people in your community. And that's where I would like to see our governments go to attain self-sufficiency, because the way we've been doing it in the past.... Even with this new investment by our government into first nations health, first nations infrastructure, it's still an investment in a broken system. It's good because we need these things immediately, but it's almost addressing a crisis again. We need to look at the long term. How are we going to not make these mistakes? How are we going to make sure these communities are sustainable and our people can actually govern?
On November 2nd, 2016. See this statement in context.