I want to get down to a granular level, because here we have lofty conversations, which is great, because we are the parliamentary committee and we talk about leveraging equity and procurement contracts and fiduciary duty, but for someone like me who is not an economist, sometimes it doesn't mean that much.
I want to ask about Labrador generally. If you can apply it to Nain, that would be great for me because I worked for three years in Nain. I thought Nain was a fantastic community. I really love Nain. I was a doctor there. But I know there wasn't a lot of economic prosperity in Nain. There wasn't a lot of business. There wasn't a lot of employment.
As our colleague on this panel from northern Quebec has said, the cost of everything up there is much higher. When I look at Labrador and all your communities that are scattered along the shore with no roads between them, and where the cost of everything is really high, I wonder how they can and would economically prosper.
Could you bring together all the things you've said about economic development and the barriers to economic development, and tell me about it in Labrador, specifically, if possible, in northern communities up at the top, Nain, Hopedale, Davis Inlet. What has gone right, what hasn't gone right, and what are your hopes? If you can't apply it up there, just tell me about the other communities in Labrador.