It's interesting. My friend Keith—and I won't mention his last name—from the reserve in my riding was a residential school participant. He has a really interesting approach. He says, “You know, for me to get better, I've had to get over what's happened. I can't keep dwelling on it. I have to move on and I have to get my family to move on, and society has to move on, and our reserve has to move on.”
I applaud that sort of approach. The frustration is that those people are telling me that the programs you talk about and the funding from our government, when we were in government, and from your government now, don't translate into change, because the funding doesn't get to the programs it needs to get to. That's their frustration.
Again, my question is how do we fix what has been a systemic issue of well-intentioned governments trying to improve the quality of life of individuals on a reserve so that they don't get incarcerated in the first place? I appreciate the whole family dynamic, and that's something that they talk about—strengthening the families. Do you seen anything specific in these strategies that you speak about that is going to deal with that concern? The funding can be there and the programs might be available somewhere, but it doesn't necessarily get translated into actionable on-reserve fixing of the problem. It doesn't get operationalized, and it's frustrating for them.