Thank you very much.
Thanks again to all the presenters. This is very, very informative.
I would like to turn to Helen Bobiwash, who is from northern Ontario.
I'm from Sault Ste. Marie, the traditional territory of Garden River, Batchewana First Nation and the Métis people, home of Turtle Island and Bawating.
Recently, we've been working closely with first nations and entrepreneurs as it relates to environmental opportunities and businesses that are being developed by the first nations in the area, including a $747,000 announcement we just recently did to protect the flora and fauna of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and St. Marys River, like the bats up in the Missanabie Cree area.
The reason I bring that up is that it's absolutely, critically important, because we have a Great Lakes fishery. You have to remember that the area where I settled and my ancestors settled was the traditional fishing grounds for many people who came from all over what is currently the United States and Canada to fish. When they were there, they used to trade. It was just natural. You're there, so you start doing business and trading.
What are the things we can continue to do to strengthen those things, such as the fisheries that are done on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and up in Agawa and those areas, as well as other things we can do using FedNor as a tool, which is a regional economic development agency?