If DFO recommends that in some of the expansion of the fish farm industry there be revenue and equity sharing for first nations within our traditional territory, those first nations can already go to Western Economic Diversification for up to $2.7 million, as long as they have 51% or more of that business.
Now, speaking to our vice-chair's question earlier about small business, every aboriginal—and as a consultant I teach them this—has, on the back side of their status card, three panels. I help them scratch out the three windows to get access to the $75,000 they have available as a grant, which they don't have to repay as long as they're responsible in running their business properly, through Aboriginal Business Canada. Given that 51%-or-more access for first nations, by virtue of DFO stating that expansion of some of the farms within the coast has to be under those guidelines, you open the door to small business expansion; you open the business to bands participating.
We as aboriginals and consultants like me, you can bet dimes and dollars, will be pursuing every one of those companies she named that don't serve farmed fish right now in their grocery stores, for corporate donation for the band level and the individual level, to get their businesses up and going. I do it right now with the run-of-the-river projects.
All the pieces of this puzzle for success, for all of us to get some good industry going while we're looking after our salmon resource as a number one priority, are in place; we just have to have some policy change from Ottawa.