Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
This idea of an industrial strategy, I think, is one that has both curiosity but also perhaps a very high level of innovative potential, should the country organize its significant natural resources along with its significant amount of skilled labour towards a common goal that would signal to, for example, investors, trade unions and, perhaps, indigenous businesses in the far Arctic how they could be involved in something that could champion a product here in Canada.
An example is maple syrup, which was one of the largest commercial but also national advertising priorities we had throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties. This product, being so simple, was actually designed by the country. The government used significant resources to align what was a traditional skill set of harvesting maple into a very highly valuable, highly developed, innovative and exportable product.
This kind of industrial strategy is something that really interests me, as a scholar: We can create incentives for both workers and our country to maybe take a national approach to the products and championing our national exportability.
Maybe I can spend a moment with Helen Bobiwash to speak about how we can reproduce that level of innovation, advertising and market power towards an indigenous-led product. The Jolly Jumper, for example, was an indigenous women-made product that is now exported across the globe. I'm so proud of it. It's something we don't champion enough in our country. We should be proud of the fact that we invented things. Women who are indigenous invented something that's the most recognizable aid for children.
Ms. Bobiwash, what's another innovative solution or innovative product that you think could propel indigenous women to that level of national and international prestige?