Lori Idlout at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]

Thank you, everyone. First of all, I welcome you, and I have enjoyed your presentation.

I will ask both of you, and you can reply separately. In my riding of Nunavut, there are only four banks. I hear from my constituents the challenges they experience just with basic banking. Given these realities, how does your bank meet the needs of indigenous people who lack physical access to do things such as apply for a mortgage? If they needed assistance and needed to borrow money to buy a house, how do you assist them in the remote communities?