A lot of business opportunities flow to not just private Inuit entities but also rights-holding institutions. We have development corporations in each of our regions. Sometimes there are up to three in one of our jurisdictions in Nunavut. Their stakeholders, the people they work for, are Inuit. Often their boards have obligations, such as to hire a percentage of Inuit and to have aspirations that would have Inuit in senior management or leading projects, that are above and beyond government requirements. It is an essential part of their reason for being. Having more access to government contracts through procurement allows for these types of companies to flourish instead of those who are fly-in and fly-out, who don't have a mandate to increase Inuit employment and Inuit participation in the workforce, and who don't return dividends back to Inuit communities.
The increased participation of Inuit in federal procurement allows for Inuit self-determination to fully take shape. In our aspiration for self-governance, it also allows for us to take care of our citizens in a more complete way than we do now.