Lori Idlout at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Qujannamiik.

I'll be asking my questions in English to Clarence Manny Jules with the First Nations Tax Commission.

I was interested in your paper, which talked about the systemic gaps and how it takes five times longer to make indigenous projects shovel-ready. I'm wondering if you could elaborate on why it takes longer for things to become shovel-ready and what is being done to address that.