Thank you.
There have been technical difficulties. I am coming from B.C. today, so thank you for having me.
In regard to your first question, my focus area in particular is bringing the foundation of a $100-billion national indigenous economy to Canada's awareness and the realization that this is happening in spite of the Indian Act.
What does it take to get ready for the $100-billion indigenous economy? My work is essentially realizing this growing economic strength of indigenous people, where we're seeing significant participation in equity ownership of major projects to begin to follow the trends in terms of investment into clean energy, foreign investment, what you are suggesting within even the natural resource sector and really beginning to pay attention to the structure of indigenous economic design.
My work has been building this concept of what is beyond Indian Act economics, that every single Canadian in this country has been impacted negatively through the concept of Indian Act economics, to be able to place into our reality the requirement for indigenous economic design and to experience the structure of that absence. I suggest that the growth of the indigenous economy cannot exist solely within programs and services. It needs to exist within—