I want to thank all of you and welcome you to our committee.
Maybe, Mr. Cheechoo, I'm going to wait for you to be ready to hear me in French or English.
This is an important topic, and I am pleased to be able to hear the viewpoint of the Native Women's Association of Canada, and to learn about how to do business with enterprises that belong to indigenous women. I am also happy to hear the opinion of the private sector from the Suncor Energy representatives. As they indicated, it is a respected and renowned enterprise that is widely well-regarded, which is all to its credit.
I'd like to speak to the Suncor representatives and gain some understanding of the business integration.
You included a graph in appendix A entitled “Suncor's Aboriginal Annual Revenues Earned”. What can that income be compared to? We see that the company's overall income has grown. What is this due to? In percentage terms, what has that growth been in the past ten years? What guarantees are there that this growth in indigenous business income that is derived from Suncor will continue?