Yes, please.
I would say that we will never break. Today I represent my community, which is a Mi'kmaq nation that has lived under colonization for more than 500 years. I'll tell you that we will never break. That is exactly why, for first nations, we need organizations like the First Nations Housing Professionals Association, which gives our people a national voice and a national lens. Together, collectively, we look for solutions that empower our people. We create opportunities whereby first nations can reinvest in themselves and we continue to move forward.
There is no opportunity for us to even consider anything less than a successful outcome.
I hear Margaret asking for a national organization for the off-reserve voice and the urban native voice. We would champion you on that, and we would applaud any efforts that could be made.
The last comment I would like to suggest to people is that it's really, really difficult to take a national view on indigenous housing for on reserve or off reserve, urban native, Inuit, Métis and to bring us all together in a forum like this. One of my last recommendations to the federal government would be to consider having meetings like this with individual groups, which would allow for a more detailed analysis of what we're all dealing with.
Thank you.