It's huge. The mental, emotional and spiritual impacts of evacuation from your home are absolutely massive.
One of the biggest issues is because of the different jurisdictions that Akwesasne is dealing with. In Treaty No. 3, we're in Manitoba and Ontario, and then water flows in from Minnesota as well, and there are relations in Minnesota and Manitoba.
Actually, the choice of many of our communities is to head west towards a larger Anishinabe nation, to Winnipeg and Manitoba, and that's more like home base. What happens right now is that those emotional, spiritual and mental impacts are actually increased, because we can only do evacuation funding in Ontario and we have to move folks further away instead of making a close drive to, say, Winnipeg, where many people have relationships and family members.
The evacuation piece speaks to our preparedness and better regulating water and being better prepared so that we don't need to evacuate, but in the instance of evacuation, we need to have protocols in place that allow for that to happen to somewhere where that space is as comfortable as possible for those who are being evacuated and everything is being done for them to return home as soon as possible as well.