Of course.
Again, let's just sit down and talk. Respect our rights. We're sharing this great country together. We have inherent rights. We have treaty rights. Let's just make sure we sit down and talk to make sure this effects and impacts everybody. This great country was founded.
How was Canada founded? John A. Macdonald created a treaty commissioner, and named Alexander Morris, on behalf of the crown to come out and cut a deal with Indians, indigenous peoples. They needed a mechanism, and what they came up with was treaties.
Of course, my chief, Little Black Bear, didn't have the strongest legal advice, I don't believe, in 1874. He didn't speak a word of English or French, but he spoke many languages, Cree, Assiniboine, and Saulteaux. Do you really think he understood these words “cede”, “surrender”, and “relinquish”?
[Witness speaks in Cree]
What I said in Cree was, “Cede. Surrender. Relinquish. No, no, no.”
Again, it's the spirit and intent versus the legalistic interpretation. We can understand sharing. We can understand getting along as a family. We are all to mutually benefit from the land and resource wealth, but that's where we have to keep taking things.