All right. I'm keen to hear from the others, so I'll stick to my 90 seconds.
Thank you for recognizing that piece. I wrote it from the heart. It was my first piece for The Hub Canada, and I'm encouraging everyone to check it out.
At the core of who we are as a people—and I speak on behalf of myself and those who have come before me in Dokis and Nipissing areas—is that we are by nature hustlers, entrepreneurial people. This idea that Disney has created that we are all just frolicking on the pine trails of the forests is bizarre to me.
I come from, as the kids say, a super hard-core family, where we set goals for ourselves and we deliver on them. Whether that's in the context of business, in law or in governance, we're always striving towards higher standards and higher goals and a vision setting out how to accomplish that.
If I can, I'll note that in the TRC calls to action there are some qualifiers there as to what we should be measuring in terms of pursuing real results. I think that hits to the core of not just indigenous people but Canadians. Adequate funding and support for education, child welfare programs and health investments is at the core of how we are going to be able to succeed to achieve what I've just referenced here in terms of robust challenges and objectives for ourselves.
I think it might be worth the committee's and the drafters' while to strengthen the language in the bill to focus on one that achieves real results to ensure we're constantly moving towards larger and bigger goals and repositioning ourselves here for the betterment of indigenous nations peoples but more importantly for Canada.