If that is now okay, I'll continue.
I'd like to make a broad distinction between economic development and business development. Business development is faced by citizens and collectively held corporations, while economic development is largely faced by institutions, which fundamentally support business development.
The sources for the barriers for business development are fundamentally the socio-economic circumstances of Métis people.
If you look at the available data, you see commonalities for Métis, Inuit and first nations when they're compared to non-indigenous Canadians. You see lower income and wealth; lower housing value and worse household repair; lower formal education rates; and lower labour force participation, employment rates and self-employment rates.
However, there are noticeable differences between the groups, and here we would caution that—