For us, when we developed our indigenous women's entrepreneur program, we defined an indigenous women-owned business as a business that is owned over 51% by an indigenous woman, but they also have to have effective control over their business. That means that they have to be essential to the operations and the success of the business.
We also added additional layers, particularly around husband and wife and whether they would be eligible for the program. Ultimately, based on an advisory council that was formed, made up of members of our indigenous financial institutions, they felt that they would not be eligible for the business. In that case, that, then, is not truly an indigenous woman-led or owned business. Ultimately, the husband is the one running the business, and it would fall outside of who we're trying to support.
Those are some of the mechanisms we put in place. We also rely heavily on our indigenous financial institutions that are located across the country in communities and have those connections to verify indigenous identity.
Thank you for the question.