Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Chief Bernard, you said something I found very interesting in one of the previous rounds of questions. It was about the benefit to the community. This is something that as a party we wholeheartedly support writ large, not just for indigenous procurement but for procurement in general. When governments spend millions or billions of dollars on infrastructure projects, for example, there should be benefits that go to communities. There should be apprentices, there should be women employed, there should be some legacy, and there should be local employment.
This is something I think that's very germane, and yet I've seen representatives of this federal government get up in the House and say that indigenous procurement is solely about the individuals receiving the contracts; it isn't about community.
Is this a gap? Is this something that your organization has brought up with the government as a shortcoming? I noticed quite a stark contrast between the comments of the government and the comments that you made before the committee just a moment ago.