"The country is 'developing' ( for good or bad ) and the country's population is increasing so these so called desolate lands are becoming encroached and their 'supermarket' is and will be largely disappearing or at least modified.
They have to adapt to the changing situation. By that I mean they need to embrace the changes and be part of them. Granted that largely they are but the transition is slow and painfull."

There is truth to this, but there is also truth to the continual head butting that municipal, provincial and federals have over who gets what. Therefore there should be the recognition that the FN gov't will have interest in this same game. Having said that, I would have no more patience for the idiot factor within their group as I would with the idiot factor, which is a significant one, in the rest of the gov't orgs. A H.O.C. session is a good example of how a fine group of leaders behave. TFPIC.