In essence, a resource charge would help facilitate resource development and extraction throughout Canada. This really came about after many years of thinking about how we could benefit from the resources that are exploited from our traditional territories and, in particular, my nation, the Shuswap nation.
The conclusion I came to is that there has to be an orderly way to be able to get the federal and, ultimately, provincial governments to vacate tax room, so that we would be able to occupy it and benefit from resource extraction. We could put in badly needed infrastructure into our communities and participate in ways that are outside of the economic impact benefit agreements.