I would say that being a minister of the Crown does not give anybody omnipotent knowledge of any situation. I would also say that the minister of the Crown who made that statement really does not understand the reality.
As I said in my opening statements, the Iroquois society is a matrilineal society. In our society, in the past, women owned the land, the house, and the children. Men were husband visitors. So if we go down the line, we were thrown out. In the case of Iroquois communities, we still follow that line, that this is a shared responsibility between men and women. I took offence when I heard the minister indicate that male chiefs are scheming behind the scenes to hold onto power. I certainly am not.