All answers to economic development have to take into account the other factors that impact it as well, including the fact that indigenous people have lower levels of wealth and income. That's a fundamental impact. Not all of those can be traced back to the root effect of colonialism, and its impact upon our communities.
One of the big drivers for economic development in the long-term is going to be education. There needs to be sufficient investment in first nations, Inuit and Métis education to help overcome the barriers to economic development. There needs to be assistance through institutions, such as the one that I run, so that once people are ready to get into business, they can overcome [Technical difficulty—Editor] and the lack of income in our communities, and still provide access to business opportunities.
Again, as you say, on day care, the number of Métis women entrepreneurs is fairly high, as far as we can see relative to the non-indigenous population. Without access to community day care, that's going to be an impediment.
There does have to be a more general understanding of the impediments and the barriers. All of them are, at their base, related to the relative lack of income and the lack of wealth that we find in our communities, and the lack of institutions to overcome that.