Thank you.
We, again, are more than prepared to take on issues that are common in the Tsilhqot'in country—floods, fires, mainly fires—but it's a matter of recognition.
We are advocating the establishment of an evacuation centre. You evacuate communities, and a lot of times they're evacuated to big city centres. Their centres are set up in gymnasiums, cot after cot. This often reminds our people of residential schools. That's not appropriate. The food that's served is not culturally appropriate. Our people want meat and salmon, and they want meat and salmon well cooked. They just want it with rice or potatoes. It should be culturally appropriate. I know those people mean well, but they're missing the mark. They have to listen to indigenous leaders.
As I said, my plan, my emergency preparedness and governance in my community are probably better than that of any other community.
Our biggest obstacle is to recognize.... Their guidelines in 2017 were constantly moving. Even in terms of getting a reimbursement, they have one standard for B.C. wildfires and another standard for indigenous peoples. We just want to know what the regulations and rules are. We'll do that. We'll follow that. We have chartered accountants on staff to track every last detail of our expenditures and all of that, yet we still have to fight all of this. It's embarrassing, to tell you the truth.