I think there are other areas.
I don't just speak for Frog Lake. I look at the fisheries. I look at the salmon. I also look at the wind projects. We've talked with Northland before. We tried to get one of the projects that were in southern Alberta because we have no choice. You either try to find a partner and get involved, or you just sit back and do nothing.
Oil and gas fluctuate, as we all know. There was a time when we were getting an invoice instead of a dividend.
Look at solar. Without the federal and provincial programs, you can't get involved if you don't have the capital. We look at logging, but at the same time, as a first nation, we look at the air because we all know trees give off the natural oxygen for the air for us to breathe. By removing all the trees, we're cutting our lives short over there and for the unborn.
We're just trying to be diverse in the best way we can and looking at different ways to offset first nations.
Look at the announcements in the province of Alberta about paving and job stimulation. How come Frog Lake or other first nations can't provide pavement and the infrastructure? Instead of just providing two flaggers on a paving of 50 kilometres, why can't we be the lead and the prime contractor?
Those are the kinds of things that we have to look at as leaders of Canada. How do we solve these problems? We have to look bigger and believe that we can do it, because we can do it.
I sell power. We have a cogen here called Strathcona. We own the cogen facility. We own 140 acres of land in Lloyd. When I got in as a chief, we had very little revenue, but we did not sell anything. We adjusted. I don't have a business degree, but I have a lot of common sense.
We have to be cognizant of that. We have to trust each other, communicate with each other and give each other the chance to succeed, because the government has the ability to impact the lives of thousands of first nations people in a good way or in a negative way. Let's choose to impact them in a good way, because we're all treaty people. When our ancestors signed that treaty, it was to share. There was no inclusion of our resources, so that we can't even benefit after almost a hundred years.
Maybe when those kinds of discussions happen, I would have a better, clear and concise answer to what more is available to the first nations besides oil and gas.