I should point out that I have been here for 30 years. I have travelled from Iqaluit to Whitehorse. I am familiar with some 65 communities. I am pretty well acquainted with the reality all across Northern Canada. I set up the French-language school and secured funding for Hay River. I was a member of the school board for eight years and, for eight years, I have sat on the Conseil de développement économique des Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
First of all, Francophones who come here often have a job. Perhaps that explains our unemployment rate. People do not come here for pleasure; rather, because there is work or because they want to be hired.
In terms of the feeling of having to compete, there is no doubt that if the territorial government gives something to Francophones, it absolutely must give the same thing to the Dene. There are five aboriginal languages. It is difficult to give something to one and not the other. In a way, it's always the same problem. For example, the schools were used to receive funding of $4.3 million. I believe the territorial government was giving them $600,000. The rest came from the federal government. It was somewhat the same situation as in Hay River. The dynamic is not always the same as elsewhere. It's not English and French; instead, it is English, the aboriginal languages, French, and so on.