Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to congratulate this government for having the initiative to establish such a program with regard to this and with regard to the situation we are in. If we earl double the money we are investing, it is getting double the bang for your buck. For investing $18 million in the economy, we are getting $36 million out of it. I think that is a good investment.
For people to realize, especially from the aboriginal communities, the battles we have fought at the negotiating table to establish something like this because it is being established through the James Bay agreement, now through the Inuit agreement and the western aboriginal groups, there are certain tax initiatives in the land claim agreements which address this. I find it personally offensive that it seems like it is always earmarked when anything is associated with an aboriginal initiative such as this to be picked at like we are a welfare state. Anything they do to try to get ahead seems to be picked on by groups that seem to have it all.
It is the same thing with the $900,000 of buffalo burgers. More power to the community. Thank you.
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