Our communities still have very essential needs, the need for health care, food, housing and education. We're trying to work with all the jurisdictions we live in as well as the federal government to ensure that we can do better moving forward in the future.
Among the essential building blocks in our modern treaties is the ability to create business and business development that will, in turn, fund our self-determination, self-governance and the interventions we want to give to our communities. It is all hands on deck, whether it be through the social policy considerations we are still working with this government on or through economic and business developments, which we hope will have a positive influence in our communities.
These larger things coming to our homeland are not things people necessarily think about every day. There's survival that people are still focused on, in many cases, and the real desire to keep our culture, language and society thriving. Canadian or diplomatic concerns, whether they're about Arctic nation-states or the world, are things that our organization also tackles, but if you were in Baker Lake or Kimmirut today, people would want to talk about housing, affordability, food and poverty.
It's up to us to try to figure out how to ensure that their needs are met, but also that opportunities are there for people. I think that's universal across this country.
