I can, certainly, and thank you for the question.
Mr. Chair, one of the defining factors of the oil and gas industry is that a lot of the activity takes place in fairly remote places in Canada, which also happens to be where a lot of indigenous communities are located. In some circumstances, participating economically in the development of energy in Canada provides some of these communities with one of the few opportunities they have for economic participation. As the development has occurred in some of these communities, they have actually had opportunities to participate meaningfully through both contracting and direct employment.
If there were a decrease in the development of energy in those places, then you would see a concurrent decrease in the opportunities for indigenous communities to participate in the development of energy and also fewer opportunities.