Absolutely. What we've found from our important work with our indigenous counterparts in Australia is that there is a need for a navigator function. This is something that my boss, president and CEO Tabatha Bull, has made the case for time and time again. There is a need for a navigator function to assist indigenous businesses in navigating the bureaucracy to draw down these procurement opportunities.
If you're a small-scale enterprise, perhaps in a rural, remote area, and you see a bid, and it's many pages long.... I don't know many SMEs that have the opportunity to go through that in detail. What they really need is a bit of support. They want and seek that support, often from indigenous organizations. Who's going to play that navigator function?
We're doing some excellent policy work right now that's been commissioned by Indigenous Services Canada, which is talking about procurement from subcontracting to indigenous businesses from corporate Canada. There are a lot of very good lessons learned that we've submitted through draft to Indigenous Services Canada, PSPC, TBS and others.
I'm really hoping that this will form some of the foundation of excellent policy development going forward. The key in that is that navigator function, to ensure that indigenous businesses have the opportunity to pull down these procurement opportunities.