I ensured that the technical people really, truly understand how the system works. I wanted to ensure that we have a complete breakdown of how the existing system works now and how we want to change that system. Through that, we're talking to each of the communities to truly understand that.
What happens is that the federal government seems to say, “Here's an agreement, and this is what we want to do.” Does it really tell you the details on how it all works and how it operates?
With that, there is a responsibility of the government to ensure that the dollars and cents are there. We're finding it difficult that communities aren't receiving enough to make it work. It's important for the risk level at the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq to ensure that we have enough funding to take it over and operate it. We already know what happened in the past, and I don't want to see CMM fall into that as the federal government has.