Thank you very much for the question.
As I described in my statement, it's about creating those opportunities and building indigenous capacity. If there's one idea that I would like to leave with the committee today, in a good way, it is that when we ask ourselves what we're doing, we should ask whether it is building indigenous capacity. Is it raising up indigenous leaders, nations and institutions? I think if we do that, we'll find much greater success.
I want to note something that my colleague noted earlier, about needing oil in the machinery to make it work more efficiently. I think that having a lot more of that CanExport support for building up indigenous nations, leaders, and institutions is the kind of oil that we need in that machinery to make it work more effectively and allow more equitable outcomes, no matter where that indigenous business might be. It might be in an urban area, a rural area or a remote area.
By building up institutions.... As Ms. Dawn Madahbee Leach, who is the vice-chair of the National Indigenous Economic Development Board, asked yesterday at a Canada 2020 event, how are we building indigenous institutional infrastructure?
I think we want to be mindful that we want to see indigenous export growth and drive indigenous prosperity while being in indigenous economic recovery. We want to support indigenous institutions.
Thank you.