Absolutely. This committee has been focused a lot on the issues of procurement and people accessing contracts, benefits and other opportunities that they're not entitled to, but as I've indicated, that's the tip of the iceberg. The larger problem is that we have institutions and corporate entities representing and pretending that they are indigenous people and indigenous nations, like the Algonquins of Ontario.
They push legitimate first nations and communities like mine to decide...because suddenly they're at the forefront. They're being requested to participate in consultations, and their interests are very much different from those of real Algonquins. We want to look at a particular project, understand the impacts and protect the environment at all costs. Entities like the Algonquins of Ontario will give consent simply for a few contracts of pre- and post-monitoring, so it really is a much larger problem than this committee is looking at.
When the government sanctions and creates these entities for the sole purpose of usurping our rights, we definitely have a problem.