Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I was speaking about a first nation that has been evacuated for over 10 years, and their kids are being raised in hotels. Just today, we had a community meeting that was held to try to update them on the process of converting that land. The region gave them funding already. There's been funding set aside for the infrastructure, and then it's the region that's holding up the paperwork.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the newly created corporation, the First Nations Finance Authority, I think it's called, or the Financial Management Board—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —is something that's been creative and is helping a lot of first nations. They're finding that there are some issues with it, but it's somewhere to start, isn't it? It'll give them that financial support.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Ojibwa] [English] I'm trying to talk in my language. It's very emotional because it was forced from me, but I'm going to try to use it when I can. I wanted to say that I'm very glad to be here today. I work with an organization that's been around since 1994, and it's only within the last five or six years that the federal government has allowed for an actual physical office to be created.