Thank you.
If I could come back to you again, Mr. Traynor, you talked about the K’ómoks situation. I represent K’ómoks and know Hegus Rempel quite well. You described it as a success and I'm curious about that, because that nation of course spent $178,000 of its own resources to fight this in court. They won, but this is one of the challenges when we talk about so many different things that the nations themselves are having to find a way to resource, and it keeps them financially unable to build up their own economic independence.
You're specifically involved in land management. I'm wondering what is the gap that creates a situation such that indigenous communities, first nations communities, can do all the work and create the bylaws, and yet when they call, they can't get those bylaws enforced. I've heard many stories about how, if a community has a good relationship with the local RCMP—and for my riding, that is what it is—the RCMP will show up and stand there. They can't really do much, but they're there in solidarity, in the hope that the policing that now the chief and council are also taking on, on top of everything else....
What is the gap? Why can't they enforce their own bylaws?
