Thank you, everyone.
This is a fascinating discussion, and I think I'm going to be calling a few of you. If I don't get to ask you questions, we are going to be talking, because some of these issues need a deeper dive.
Mr. Young, I'd like to start with you. In a previous life, I worked for the Algonquin nation, and the only time we ever got to meet the forestry companies was when we ran blockades. That was the way it was in the early 2000s. Things have changed dramatically since then, but it's still not a fair ground.
We have communities where, to assess long-term cutting plans, to be out there on the traplines and make sure everything's okay, and then to have to deal with mining companies and with hydro projects.... It tends to be the same department on the reserve, but it doesn't have the kind of backup and support that a major company would have. Plus, they also then have to deal with whether they are going to get beyond subcontracting and be able to get out there, take control and do something, as well as do the economic development.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. It's not even the issue of capacity so much, but the financing to be able to protect the forest and put an indigenous lens on development.