I can start. This is Shannin Metatawabin from NACCA.
We are delivering the emergency response program for indigenous businesses. The program was a full two and a half months later than that for regular businesses, so we definitely have lost businesses.
The current increase in $20,000 to that emergency response has still not.... I have still not received word that our indigenous businesses are going to be receiving the same support. As far as timing and responding in a timely fashion, we're already behind. When we're starting to talk about recovery, I don't want to be behind. You have to engage the indigenous institutions on your panel today to ensure that the needs of our community are being met in time to ensure we all rebound at the same level. Otherwise, indigenous communities are going be rebounding more slowly and it will take a lot longer.
One of the members talked about funding. Funding is so important, because our indigenous businesses have been suffering from a 70% decline in government equity support to start businesses over the past 20 years. We need to support indigenous businesses at the level that enables them to be truly successful and to recover from this emergency.