Thank you, Tracy, for your question.
This is a topic that our organization, NACCA, and our CEO, Shannin Metatawabin, have been bringing forward very recently to address the procurement issue of indigeneity.
I think it is concerning that these opportunities have been taken advantage of by companies that are not truly indigenous-owned and -controlled. I think that for the communities and entrepreneurs we represent, part of what we try to do is ensure that the entrepreneurs we're supporting are in fact indigenous. Through our network of indigenous financial institutions, we do a verification process and do our due diligence to ensure the entrepreneurs accessing our programming and loans and grants are in fact indigenous.
What I'd like to end with is that it should be indigenous communities, indigenous right holders, overseeing that verification of who in fact is an indigenous business.
Thank you.