In particular, when I'm talking about access to capital, yes, it would be in the form of loans, but it would be specifically for equity.
I just wanted to make a really quick comment on access to capital. In the past, we've seen challenges whereby there are too many communities and development corporations. Even today, there are still challenges for individual indigenous entrepreneurs having access even to debt capital. That's why the AFIs that Dawn talked about earlier are such a fundamental part of the ecosystem to support indigenous business, but they do still have caps. That's a huge challenge.
I think there's a tremendous opportunity there, but not necessarily for the creation of a new Crown corporation. The Business Development Bank of Canada is a perfect example. It has provided a very robust indigenous banking unit, following along the lines of what you see with TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, RBC and CIBC. I think they've done a great job in terms of providing that debt capital to communities and development corporations and even taking on additional risk to support entrepreneurs.
Now, as we move into that bigger realm of having communities looking at participating in large-scale projects or even medium-scale projects, that kind of capital on the equity side is critical. This isn't a brand new thing. This is something that has actually happened in another jurisdiction, namely in Ontario through the Green Energy Act, which I thought was just an absolutely brilliant program. It was the initiative on the part of the Government of Ontario to ensure that it was going to have indigenous engagement with green energy projects. It provided a guarantee to enable financial institutions to lend equity for first nations and Métis to participate. I think something like that would be an incredible opportunity.