I work every day financing indigenous businesses and we do have businesses that are doing trade in the U.S. already. It is easy for them to do trade in the U.S., more so than for companies that come to Canada, so this enabling legislation would be most helpful. Also, recognizing intellectual property and that we need to have those kinds of things, as well as meaningful procurement.
Our procurement system that we have here is not measurable. There's nobody making sure that it's actually happening and that there's a report done to provide the public with the fact that this many indigenous businesses are actually doing that. There's no audit of it. I think we need to do that to show that there are actually indigenous businesses benefiting from what this government's contracting out.