I was pleased to see that one of the NDP leadership candidates is also opposed to the continued tanker ban. I think that's where we have to get to; we should be able to, regardless of political stripe, support each other in developing our projects. I can tell you that I do. When I travel internationally, I talk about Quebec's aluminum business, I talk about the auto business in Ontario and its ability to produce steel, and I talk about LNG exports from British Columbia. We have critical minerals in every part of this country, including the north. There is not a single project that has been proposed that I have expressed an opposition to, and I hope that politicians and premiers of all stripes would take the same view.
When I look at the project that would have had the most impact on developing new markets, it was the northern gateway project. Maybe there's a need for us to consider a different route. My indigenous relations minister, Rajan Sawhney, this week was at a meeting of B.C. chiefs in Kitimat, and we've begun the consultation on the ground.
We have already, in the past five years, developed something called the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, which has underwritten $750 million in loan guarantees so that indigenous bands can take an equity stake in a variety of projects, including natural gas power plants and pipelines. We know the system works; it's going to generate 1.3 billion dollars' worth of revenue for those bands directly over the course of their lifetime, and we would like to see the same kind of arrangement with Alberta and British Columbia bands.