Thank you so much.
Mr. Jenkins, I'll focus my questions to you.
In another life, before I became a member of Parliament, I worked for the Algonquin Nation in northern Quebec. One of my main jobs was organizing blockades, because nobody ever came to the table. The hydro companies didn't come. The mining and forestry companies didn't come. The only way to get attention in those days was to stop a project.
I've seen an incredible transformation. I've seen amazing leadership emerging, especially in the young generations that are coming up. However, I'm also seeing that projects that should be moving ahead are not moving fast enough, because, particularly on clean-energy hydro projects, there's still a labyrinth of issues at the federal and provincial levels, and free trade deals impede the ability for local procurement.
How do you see the situation now for first nation involvement in clean energy, and being able to not just benefit to transform energy on the reserve, but also in the traditional territories, so that they could build into a larger grid and make sustainable wages and have jobs for community members?