The Prime Minister spoke at the summit about the need to train young aboriginal people for jobs in the expanding resource economy. But even that was greeted with suspicion. Stan Beardy, the Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation in Northern Ontario, quipped that, while the government seems intent on preparing his young people to work for somebody else, “we want to develop [the land] so somebody would work for us and make money for us.”

This bothers me, maybe they should take their knowledge of the land and go out and put up claims, gather investors, drill some holes, find something, and then hire people to work for them. No, they sit around and complain that they want everything give to them after others find something. It is why they get the Rodney Dangerfield effect.