I could respond.
Yes, I've really seen in my work over many years that colonialism definitely has had an impact on the lives of the Nishnawbe Aski people. I can speak only for our own people, because that's where I've worked most of my life.
I think that working together in the last few years with various levels of government and other groups to create programs has been one of the main things we've done to try to ensure that everybody knows where we're coming from, and that we have a voice, whatever project we're working on, especially in the area of virtual emergency care, which was started about four years ago. We now have 17 communities hooked up to virtual emergency care.
This year, we've been working on four extra sites, but with the pandemic, it's been slow going. We're still working on it, but I think the more we try to work together.... I look at some of the things from the work that's been done with the.... I forget what it's called, but anyway, if we can take a look at some of those recommendations, I think that would help us to address some of the issues that have been plaguing us, I guess, in the areas of health and mental health over so many years.
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