Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To both witnesses, Ms. Bull and Mr. Metatawabin, thank you for taking time to join us today. I know your opinion is valued by the committee.
I'm going to ask one question first to Mr. Metatawabin.
In your first recommendation, you talked about the opportunity to leverage financing for investment in infrastructure. You spoke specifically about housing, but also other infrastructure. Last week, we heard from the first nations fiscal management folks about their concept of monetization as a methodology to leverage own-source revenues into infrastructure investment to fill a very large infrastructure gap we have in first nations communities.
I'm really curious about your concept of how you would utilize the leverage financing and how that would accelerate investment in infrastructure, and maybe more importantly, adding to the end of that conversation, how it would remove barriers to indigenous business successes in doing so.