Thank you for that question.
We need to prevent this from happening. Indigenous people are also frustrated with the system. They're not seeing the opportunities. There's a big wall in front of the government, which means that we can't access government procurement, but on the other side of the wall, procurement is happening with actors that are not moving forward in the right way. There need to be penalties, for sure. You need to be barred from the process. There are OSIC policies that deal with this, up to and including barring them for life from accessing this program.
It's criminal behaviour to conduct fraud, so we have to take other steps and demonstrate to the world and to Canada that those actors who are engaging in this activity don't use this window and this program to access the federal government in a bad way. We need this opportunity for indigenous people, because right now indigenous people are taking their lives in their communities because they don't have opportunities in this world.
Thank you.