I think it goes hand in hand in regard to what we are asking for if we're going to create these businesses, jobs, and opportunities. It's beneficial for us to educate our youth, to keep them in the communities, and to have them doing meaningful trades jobs running the forest and looking after the forest. It really goes hand in hand to ensure....
We hear so many horror stories in regard to first nations reserves that have no jobs, and the poverty and everything else. We're all surrounded by forests. We're all delivering forest products. If we all got together, we could make every first nations community a success story. We could be out there honking our horns and saying, “Hey, everybody's working. Our first nations community members are benefiting, the surrounding communities are benefiting because of the economic opportunities, but most of all our youth are benefiting.”
You heard about the suicides and everything else that goes on in first nations. That would give them something that would occupy them and keep them employed and keep them working. It would get them to have the structure in regard to having money, or buying a vehicle, as a lot of other communities do. The youth have that opportunity. First nations communities don't. A federal program to assist and to coincide with employment, jobs, and training would go hand in hand.