Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate both of you being here.
I want to pick up on something my colleague Mr. Maguire was asking you about at the end of his questioning time. He made an assertion that aboriginal Canadians are a group that could be very positively impacted by this idea of social financing and working with partners.
I certainly agree. I think there is great potential there, no question, and it seems that you agree with him on that as well.
I just want to pick up and expand on that a bit more, because I do think there is probably a lot of opportunity there. I think of the partnerships already on many of our first nation reserves with corporations, businesses, corporate citizens, and others. I'm thinking of the first nation reserve in my riding. They already have a number of partnerships with outside interests—companies and corporations—on economic development opportunities.
I think there must be some opportunity to expand on the relationships and partnerships already there. I know there are many companies out there, especially larger corporations, that do have corporate social responsibility initiatives. There must be ways we can tie those together and really create something that could be very impactful and positive for our first nation communities in this country.
I wonder if you could just expand a bit more on that and give us some more thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.