Thank you. I appreciate that question.
I would say that there are two parts to it. If you are talking about indigenous people, there's the Crown consultation hub that I've talked about, which, to me, makes a lot of sense. I see that, in the past, for each specific permit for one project, there would be a different consultation, so you would end up in a situation in which one community faced multiple consultations, but it was all about the same project. Actually, it makes it harder to have a holistic view if you're slicing it through the vision of many different ones at the same time, so a big part of doing the Crown consultation hub is to simplify the process and to allow people to have a more holistic view.
The other piece is that the cabinet directive also includes that IAAC, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, would also work on coordinating funding for indigenous peoples. There are a couple of different places where that comes in, because that goes to the capacity piece too. One piece is funding to allow for the development of capacity. The other piece is just not overwhelming people with many small, disparate things and then having them try to stitch together all those pieces.
On the part about local communities, I think that's where regions and national interests can really come into play, because there is, as part of that, an investigation. I've talked about the environmental pieces. I've talked about the nature piece. There's also the part about culturally significant areas. There are public consultations, by the way, that follow a lot of the process as well, so there are chances for people to share their views.
