David Chartrand is a politician and aboriginal activist in Manitoba, Canada, who is the current leader of the Manitoba Métis Federation... (wikipedia)
He's assisting us and showing, for instance, the family's big concern to us, the children had no clothes; how do they access their clothes now, how do they get into their home, things of that nature.
It is far different from what we saw last time, just everybody was locked out and you were told a week later what was going to go on. It seems like there is some improvement that has been put in place that's making a difference already.
Without a land base you're not a people, you're not a nation. That's been a struggle for our people for over a century now.
It still scares us. We don't exactly like the fact that our tax dollars ? when the company gets loans for research and development ? are going into investments like $200 million into Mexico.
A constitutional obligation, a legal obligation, has been ignored and denied by Canada, and Canada, in my view and I'll use layman's language robbed us of our land.