Thank you for the question, and I'm sorry. I'm a little bit off. I'm just dealing with something with my cousin. Anyway, I have to get home soon.
There are so many ways—and I have my experts here—to help first nations people. There are the investments, of course, and I know we're going to have a first ministers meeting later this year. I look to everybody around this room to make sure that we try to make some changes in this country when it comes to the way first nations are treated in our own homelands.
Even when we talk about these other issues with banking.... I met with a minister earlier today to talk about making sure that we're included in a program. One of the responses was, “Well, we'll be working with the provinces and the territories.” I said, “But that's not....” Because we're under the Indian Act and because we're on first nations communities, that often excludes us from those provincial transfers.
I know that those are really difficult discussions to be had, but it's so important that we are at the table together. I'm glad the Prime Minister and the premiers around this entire country finally called. After 20-plus years, we're finally going to be at the table together to talk about some outcomes, but it shouldn't be just every 20 years.
I ask this House and the provinces as well that we continue to dialogue together and come up with solutions so that we can change the trajectory of our country into the best country that it can be. If we closed that infrastructure gap for first nations, we'd be at the top of the G7 countries around the entire world. It would kick aside Trump's illegal tariffs and we could have a really good country, but we would have to work together and we would have to make sure that we're opening investments with each other and sharing in the prosperity of this country.
When it comes to the banking systems, I talked to a few other people this morning on that. We had a big discussion about it, in that first nations have to almost come to Ottawa to ask the minister for a ministerial loan guarantee. What other municipality, town or city would have to do that? I know that we have a long way to go in our relationship with each other, but let's get on a better footing. There's just so much....
Let's be making sure as well that we invest in children's education and training. We've heard that before, but let's actually do it. Let's target those young people and give them a chance to work. I think we're depending too much on bringing in other people from other countries around the world when there's this big untapped market of young first nations people.