Oh, I see.
The government's lack of will is easy enough to understand. We have an inherent right to self-government. I sincerely believe that the government does not want that right to find expression. But governments will have to consider the fact that the First Nations' population is expanding. At some point, budgets are established based on population.
We were talking about the $285 million a little earlier. But it's important to remember that this is over a two-year period and that this $285 million is to address five major issues, including diabetes and suicide prevention. There is a huge amount of work to be done in those areas. So, those are the things I see.
The First Nations are always being asked what they want. But we have basically been saying what we want for years. In fact, it is aptly summarized in the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. There you have the explanation. People are saying that they want to have their own means of making a living and developing, and that they want to be able to freely practice economic, traditional and other activities.
An example comes to mind—natural resources extracted from our land. I will use the example of my own nation, so as not to offend anyone. It has received nothing—absolutely nothing. How can I live on my inherit right to self-government if I am not entitled to enjoy the economic spinoffs of these resources? I am not talking only about forest resources; there are also mining and natural resources. These are some of the many resources I don't have access to.
We are put in the impossible situation of acting on our inherit right to self-government. That is like saying that First Nations should sit down with the multinationals that are cutting down trees on our land and tell them they have to give us a percentage of the economic spinoffs. That would be a way of becoming independent.
But right now, we have nothing. We have no resources. We are kept in a state of depression. And the reason we are depressed is that we wonder how we will ever manage to extricate ourselves from our current circumstances. That would be an intelligent way of achieving that.
We are governments: the provincial government, the federal government and the First Nations governments, but we don't have--