Thank you.
While the 33% content requirement focuses on the value of the dollars in the contract, an indigenous participation plan can be used to require different types of deliverables under the contract. For example, indigenous participation plans, IPPs, can be used to give specific requirements around, for example, indigenous employment in terms of the life of the contract. It could also include requirements for training. It's a tool that can be used in order.... It's a way to ensure that the benefits go to indigenous businesses and indigenous people as intended.
As Ms. Wilson mentioned, this is a best practice at this point, as opposed to being mandatory. There is an exception to that, and that is in the Nunavut land claim area. It is mandatory to use an indigenous benefit plan, which is a synonym for indigenous participation plan in procurements in that land claim area.