Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the ministers and all their support staff for being here with us on a Friday afternoon. I get the sacrifice of that.
I want to follow up a little bit on the conversation with Minister Hajdu.
In your opening comments, you talked about communities needing a strong economic foundation in order to grow and prosper. You talked about advancing self-determination through strong economic growth. Yet in the Speech from the Throne, and in the mandate letters of both yourself and Minister Miller, the only reference to anything on the concept of economic growth, or supporting indigenous people from an economic perspective, was the reference to the aboriginal entrepreneurship program. I've had several conversations with national indigenous organizations, and, frankly, they were quite concerned about this.
In my vast knowledge of two and half years around the Hill—that's a joke, by the way—one of the things I learned is that if things aren't in the mandate letters, if they're not in the Speech from the Throne, then you start to question the level of priorities.
I'm just curious. Economic reconciliation was really left out of all of those documents. How much of a priority is this, really, for the government?