Thank you.
I was just mentioning that, in these unregulated provinces, the fiduciary responsibility the federal government has over first nations under section 91(24) and within the Indian Act is being deferred to provinces to determine our fate. Within first nation communities, we have tirelessly organized politically to try to create unity among chiefs' associations, like AOTC in Alberta, or the chiefs' association in Saskatchewan or Manitoba. These entities are some of the arms that come from the community. No disrespect to the AFN or any of that affiliate, but those chiefs are not elected from our communities. They're elected through regions by the chiefs of those regions. Then the leadership of our communities carry the knowledge of our communities, and their technicians are people like their health directors, who provide them direct information on the ground as to what's happening.
It's really important, and even in our own bureaucracies, we have to try to weed out some of our own political interference in that. How do we get the stakeholder, the actual subject matter expert's voice, like mine or like my supervisor's and so forth, like those of these amazing people I'm with today, to get that direct information, instead of politicizing it and keeping it removed as if it's something on a shelf? This is while we're sitting here struggling and trying to maintain people's lives, trying to keep people alive.