I think we have to recognize that Canada is very systemic in its exclusion of the indigenous community. As an example, today a building project in an indigenous community doesn't allow the indigenous community that has an economic corporation to even be eligible for that project, to bid and be successful in that project, so that the money would stay in that community and be socially impacting that community and those families. In my opening statement, I said that food security would be improved by half.
We need to improve the services throughout. This is not a solution of procurement services Canada improving and enhancing its services to say that they can meet the target. It's a bigger problem than that. We need to change the way the system progresses. The example I use is the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association. Indigenous Services Canada used to deliver our program 30 years ago. Their loss rate was 75%. Our loss rate is 3%. That's an indigenous organization delivering to our own people. We have deep social connections to our people. We know who is in the community. We do our due diligence. We ensure that it will be a successful operation, because it's for our children's children.
If you are looking at a procurement process that's going to be created by our people, we want to make sure that it's going to be successful. We are going to ensure that the right businesses are eligible. We're undertaking right now an indigenous business definition project to ensure that we have a new way of looking at what an indigenous business is.
All these processes have to be linked together. We need to have, to go back to Ray's point, a data link to connect everybody's database to one database so that everybody can rely on it.
Thank you.