Some are related to energy and some are related to mining, but nonetheless, engaging first nations is an important practice.
How do you engage first nations? How do first nations participate in the development of resources within their respective territories, whatever the nature? It might be fishery resources. It might be land development, for example, or other types of development in their respective traditional territories.
One of the biggest obstacles first nations routinely run into is getting access to capital in order to proceed with a project, and that's a difficult one. We have access to the resource under the legal nature of our rights. What we don't have access to is development of those resources. We've been suggesting that in addition to the funds raised earlier for ongoing training development, which is essential, that the government consider and perhaps set forth funds that could be used for supporting first nations that are involved in development of projects.
There's a small amount of funding under the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board that I'm aware of—I sat on that board for a while—but that fund is not very significant considering the magnitude of the projects that are potentially available right now. Whether it's potash development in Alberta or LNG on the west coast or forestry initiatives or fishery resource development on the west coast or on the east coast, access to capital is a really big problem for sure.