Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here.
I would like to know more about what your department has done or intends to do in terms of increasing capacity within indigenous communities.
Have you already made investments to increase capacity within communities so that they can supplement their diets by hunting, fishing and harvesting? Have you looked at more funding for the equipment they need to hunt and fish? Do you have an assessment of the needs of indigenous communities and the amounts that would be required to meet them?
Could consideration be given to providing more funding for the infrastructure and equipment that indigenous people need? This would allow them to better provide for their communities themselves, which in turn could have a clear impact on the prices of consumer products.