Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all our witnesses for appearing today.
My first questions will be for Chief Bernard.
In the last budget there were more details about investment tax credits for a range of clean technologies and things of that nature. I'm wondering what you think the opportunities are for indigenous communities to be able to make use of those ITCs.
In the development of those structures, what could government and policy-makers here in Ottawa do to make sure that those result in meaningful equity stakes for indigenous communities? What is the potential for community benefit agreements and other tools to ensure that it isn't just multinationals coming in and taking things out, but that local people and indigenous people with rights to the land and resources are also economic beneficiaries?