As the parliamentary secretary knows all too well, Minister Carr, the government overall, and the Prime Minister have certainly made it very clear throughout this past 15 months that there's a very strong commitment on that front.
We had very engaged partners right across the country when we had those discussions. From west to east, and everything in-between, they felt this was an area where they had a clear common interest. The remote communities topic was clearly the dominant one, but I would say that forestry and mining, where we have large employment of aboriginal people across the country, was also of keen interest.
The message conveyed was—and the committee members would know a lot more about this, so I have to be humble as I describe it—that they clearly saw a strong, collective or joint interest in advancing this. The message they conveyed to us was simply that they wanted to be part of that solution together. They want to work it out together.
Another reality that was certainly also conveyed was the need to have some support in terms of capacity, and to identify those opportunities in their communities. That's something we've been discussing with aboriginal organizations to see how we can use the existing capacity while trying to reach out to those communities, which are spread out around the country, so they are aware of what can be done in terms of solutions to lower their cost of energy, for instance.