It's an important question. The biggest thing is around the capacity supports for first nations. First nations are not on a level playing field with the utilities that are approaching them to work on projects in terms of resourcing money and people like geo-engineers and routing experts. They're also not on a level playing field with governments, provincial or otherwise, as well as industry. In all of those cases, first nations who are being approached are really out-competed in terms of resources. It's about resourcing nations in terms of experts, capacity supports, lawyers, consultants and all the things you need to really think about it, as well as resourcing first nations to do comprehensive community planning so that they know what their members want and aren't surprised by projects.
The final thing to think about is setting nations up so that they can take advantage of procurement. For example, a transmission line going in requires very specialized electricians. If nations are to tool up their members to take part in those types of industries, they need lead time to certify, to create that kind of job opportunity and to create indigenous-owned businesses to meet the moment with the correct industry.
