Mr. Chairman, one of the difficulties I find myself in with regard to the whole issue of language or culture, is that aboriginal people are not getting caught up with this notion that it is really not them, as aboriginal people. I am saying, for example, it is with regard to individual competitiveness, as opposed to community or collective thinking. Where it is slowly losing that value and we are slowly turning to European values and saying that I am better than my brother next to me, or on that side of me, and I think that is a bad trend, the way things are going.

The example again is, just because we are hunters, we know terminology as a hunter, does not mean as much as a person that is in the Laing Building as an interpreter. What used to be a way of life, becomes a profession that requires individual competition. I think that, myself, I am also getting caught up in that world of competition, that dog eat dog world kind of a situation.

I never used to be that way, perhaps, but I am afraid that what used to be collective as aboriginal people is slowly being eroded. We are accepting more methods, or technologies, of accepting other cultures, and that really fragments us as people. I do not know if you noticed it, Mr. Minister, but, certainly I think that by some of your responses, I am getting the notion that you are also caught up into it yourself.