Unfortunately, Ms. Brassard, I am going to be the one to ask you the final question.
However, I would first like to thank our witnesses.
Ms. Denis-Damée, you worry about the contribution you can make, but your testimony was the most effective of all. It reflected the experience of a person who helped us to understand the realities of her community. I want to extend my deep thanks to you for having the courage to do that.
I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the other witnesses for telling us what is needed. You particularly focused on the need to work in cooperation and to set aside the paternalistic approach, which we have used for far too long.
I would like to ask a question which deals with my favourite topic. I now have a great deal of respect for the Aboriginal communities, but I did not have much before I actually got to know them. I was one of those people who believed that members of these communities don't pay taxes and spend all their time selling cigarettes. Before I got to know Ms. Gabriel, I did not know much about the Aboriginal communities. Fortunately for me, I got to know them. I was wondering whether we should be educating the non-Aboriginal communities about their culture and history. Perhaps that would allow us to get out of the straightjacket that has existed now for hundreds of years.
Ms. Archambault, I would like to know whether you are familiar with the Akaitcho First Nation in the Far North. It negotiated a special agreement with the Government of Canada with respect to its diamond mines. We passed a motion in Parliament on that several years ago. I wondered whether the results had been positive.