First of all, I spent the day yesterday at Tête-à-la-Baleine, which is another isolated community here. There's a fantastic lady there who has a farm called the Rigolet. She has all of this land that's ready to grow food, but she wants a subsidy to build a cold storage and preparation unit so she can hold the food all winter. She can grow carrots, potatoes and turnips—the root vegetables we have. The biggest fundamental obstacle she ran into is that after she applied for a subsidy and got word back that this was great, a false hope was built up and then all of a sudden it vanished.
I guess my ask would be that if we don't fit the criteria, you say no right away so we can find other avenues, because we're waiting on responses sometimes for months. If the answer is no, let it be no. We're all adults. We can handle the no, but let us get our own things, even if that means going to the private sector and having the private sector build it and then we rent it from them. We're constantly chasing these subsidies, and if there's no money available, let us know. We are entrepreneurial. We want to feed ourselves. We want to do these things, but we are always roadblocked. We hear, “Hey, why don't you apply for this subsidy?” and then it never comes.
