It's a good example. Tom, who grew up near where Jamie's from, runs our co-op. Even our grocery store is a co-operative. He also hustles as a custodian in the evenings. He married into the Haida Nation. He's a chaníi, or a grandfather, to Haida children. It's a good example of this integration between our people and our communities over this history. We're quite interwoven. Again, we've all gone to school together. People have intermarried between the nation and our neighbours among the nation. It's very hard to separate everything. It actually upholds one of our Haida values of interconnectedness. As we get deeper into this work, and being an island nation, we appreciate and recognize the interconnectedness of everything.
I think this bill is important in ratifying this government-to-government relationship. Also, all of this work helps to bring greater clarity and stability to the people who live on the island and call it home, as we're trying to plan out what our future is together. In this in-between situation when recognition of the government isn't complete and title to the land isn't fully complete, people are trying to plan out their future and make investments, and there's a hesitancy to do that when things feel like they're uncertain to us and the people of the island.
All of this brings forward greater clarity and certainty in the relationship between us as governments and as people, as we continue to plan and carve out our future together.