Thank you very much.
Thank you for joining us today to discuss a very important issue for first nations across our country.
One of the recurring themes in our discussion so far has been the fundamental barriers that first nations face in terms of access to capital. I appreciate that your work is more focused in terms of the financing and development of projects, but I wonder if perhaps you could share your thoughts about how important it is for us to deal with some of those fundamental barriers, such as literacy, financial literacy, access to education, access to post-secondary, which I'm sure you appreciate is on all fronts much lower than for non-first nations across the country.
How might those barriers connect to a community's lack of capacity in terms of being able to develop key projects or push key projects that are necessary?