30 Quotes by Phil Fontaine

Unfortunately, many First Nations communities still lack the basic infrastructure to connect to the Internet,

We're extremely pleased. It's about symbolic recognition of the loss of languages and cultures.

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Next year is going to be an extremely busy time for us. It's going to be a huge undertaking.

People are anxious to bring this terrible chapter to a close.

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

It is clear to us that we have strengthened our hand considerably and that governments are going to have to invite us to the table to negotiate the kind of changes that we need for our people.

We don't take issue with anything the minister has expressed here today.

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,