I'd say we work very well together, and sometimes not at all. But I think there's a reflection now that people, at a minimum, have to talk at all levels of government. It doesn't matter what kind of political stripe you come from, because the insects and the ecological energetic flows don't follow human administrative boundaries. In most landscapes, the energetic flows largely follow how the wind and the water move. The physical geography contains the energetic flows.
That's what you will find historically on Turtle Island with the different riparian systems. You had the different indigenous confederacies controlling.... For example, there was the Iron Confederacy of the Cree, the Ojibway and the Nakota Sioux, with the northern Saskatchewan watershed, going from the mountains all the way up to James Bay, Hudson Bay. You had that logical political confederation there and they looked at the energetic flows within that. It was a different time, a different era, but that's how collaboration happened in the past.
I would suggest that this is actually highly scientific, and that's how our political entities.... We have some of these experiences with the Great Lakes Commission and the different cross-border commissions. It's not perfect in today's political environment, but the political environment changes, gentlemen and gentleladies, and I think we should always be bringing it back to the science and seeing how human beings actually worked with that in the past.