I think in more ways than one, the thing that continues to be a burden on our first nation when it comes to economic benefits or IBAs in the area is the fact that industry does not want to pay impact benefit agreements to the first nation. They feel it's a burden to them in regard to how they do their development in our area.
We're trying to say that impact benefit agreements are a need because they benefit the first nation. There are benefits when it comes to social, housing, and education programs, and every other aspect, and creates employment in the community where the first nations people don't want to work in the oil and gas sector. Therefore, it's a great benefit when we have those impact benefit agreements. Not all of the impact benefit agreement money that comes into the first nation is being depleted as fast as it comes in. We are developing a trust fund. We're saving it for future generations. The resource is non-renewable. Our trust fund meets the demands for future generations to come.
That's why we need to have an impact benefit agreement with industry. Industry can't continue to say that these impact benefit agreements are going to be a prime example in regard to how we are getting dollars from Canada because of our contribution agreements where we have to provide a mechanism for.... Pretty much we have to ask for the money when we're trying to put it in one area to make it as simple as possible for access of those dollars to flow through to our community.