My philosophy on making sure that every aspect of our first nations community is supported is that instead of trying to take things on our own as a development corporation, we've chosen to partner. We've partnered with Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan. We've partnered with Economic Development Regina. We've created programming together to support our entrepreneurs and to specifically look at the barriers that our women entrepreneurs may face through the Matchstick program that was created.
I know that capital has come up quite a few times here. We've been trying to knock on federal doors to ask, “Can we get a separate fund established for access to capital for our indigenous women entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan?” We'd love to be able to have access to that.
The reason we need it to be different is because some of the basic criteria of being able to access that capital are a little different. If we're coming from families or entrepreneurs who don't have assets to be able to use as collateral, the chances of them accessing the current capital are such that it's not going to work. There are things like that.
We've been working with our non-indigenous partners and collaborating. We just created a new mentorship program that's going to be able to access significant capacity from the business community so that our entrepreneurs can pick up the phone and give them a call.