Our organization sponsors a small business adviser for aboriginal citizens and we have done so for about 15 years. Their role is to work with the community and to provide education and awareness around the types of skills and components required to start a business, how to work through a business plan, and so on.
There haven't been any resources that have been targeted toward aboriginal small business through our process. If there were to be through the LMDA I think it would be necessary that this be a carve off of aboriginal small business development and something that the community could work with the government in designing. Critically, when it comes to designing for programs or offerings that are specific to the aboriginal community, that should only be done through the aboriginal community. All too often we have program formats that are presented to us designed behind the door somewhere by someone but not necessarily in consultation with us.