Absolutely. We are a fairly optimistic organization, because we represent a lot of businesses and they are pretty optimistic, overall.
It's a really interesting environment right now, because there are so many innovative frameworks for success that we've seen across Canada, for example, Membertou in the east and the Atlantic region. You see private companies like the Bouchier group of companies partnering with Carillion, a major multinational out of the U.K., which now owns 48% of the Bouchier group of companies. You see, as I said, TransAlta, which made a deal with a local first nation to have power lines go across their community, and then, instead of paying them a small amount of money every year in perpetuity, it bundled that money, took it to the bond market, and was able to come back with enough money for the community to buy into an equity position in the project.
I think there is no lack of imagination on the business side. It's not quite one-size-fits-all. There are similar problems, absolutely, but there are a number of solutions around partnerships, procurement, and financing.
A few of the highlights would be reducing some of the lingering restrictions imposed by the Indian Act on business on reserve; ensuring there is robust access to procurement policies, as well as support for small businesses to act to go through those processes, which can be quite complicated; and increasing support for financing, particularly through AFIs, aboriginal financial institutions. I think those would be some of the highlights.