I think most of the tribes I've come across and worked with feel that they have a little more autonomy in deciding what's being done for them.
Here in Canada, especially with first nations, Indigenous Services Canada.... In the oil and gas space, it's the Indian Oil and Gas Canada that really tries to dictate and tell us what to do. It's not a very savvy business case. It seems to watch over. Most times, any revenues that we see, for example, in the oil and gas space, the government attempts to control. Some nations have been able to take control of their oil and gas revenue money now, but it's still a struggle.
As long as Indigenous Services Canada is overseeing our nations, it will be really tough. Now that the provinces.... With some of these new projects that are coming forward, the access to capital is an issue.
Some of the conversation today was about what Alberta did with the moratorium on renewables. For first nations, of course, we're heavily invested in some of these projects, but at the same time, a regulator could ensure that there's cleanup placed on something, such as abandoned wells. This is because, at the end of the day, here in oil and gas, we're stuck with abandoned wells that should be orphaned because there's no owner. The same thing could be said for solar panels and wind turbines in our traditional territories.
A lot of these things, in which the government is interfering, really hamper our economic development and try to more or less guide our ship, when we can make those decisions ourselves for the most part.