Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I hope someone will be able to shed some light on this for me. Earlier, I asked the minister about the funding for the pipeline going west. I asked him if public funding was possible, and he said it was possible through the indigenous loan guarantee program.
That program has increased from $5 billion to $10 billion, with a maximum of $1 billion per project or proponent. As far as the pipeline is concerned, the cost is estimated at between $30 billion and $40 billion.
Could that be divided up somehow so that a number of indigenous communities could be involved in the funding?
That way, we could, for instance, reach the maximum of $10 billion in loans for indigenous communities.
Is that part of the analysis done by the department?