I'd be happy to, Chair.
The member raises a very important question. It has been a top priority of the minister and Transport Canada to strengthen partnerships with indigenous peoples. There are many nations that are in a place where they are really important partners in the transportation system, and we have been working to find solutions to include them as partners in the management of the systems: for example, bringing indigenous partners into the emergency spill response system in the marine response and building out the transportation system.
We've seen that with the FNTI, the First Nations Technical Institute flight training school, which I think is around Belleville. We've seen that with the partnerships with the Arctic Gateway Group, the indigenous-led partnership running the railway in northern Manitoba.
We do run into the exact problem you've identified, so we've been trying to work it through on I wouldn't say a case-by-case basis but a project-by-project basis and bringing together the federal partners, because we can be a little complicated for counterparties. I think we've done that with PrairiesCan, where Indigenous Services Canada and Transport have come together in northern Manitoba.
We do need to find a better way. I think the member is right. We'll keep searching for that to create that single window where an indigenous partner can come to us and we can find the right terms to build the transportation system together.