Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his heartfelt interventions on this issue. The whole question of procurement and public contracts is a very sensitive one. We are talking about thousands of contracts and billions of dollars. These are often the places where a lot of corruption and cronyism happens, strangely enough, be it among the Liberals or the Conservatives.
As for awarding 5% of contracts to indigenous companies, we obviously agree with that objective from a reconciliation perspective. That said, a Liberal minister is currently getting raked over the coals for several reasons. There are plenty of potential scandals related to this.
Last week, I attended a meeting of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. One of the things that amazes me is that it is still the federal government that decides which businesses are indigenous. It is not the indigenous communities themselves. I would like my colleague to tell us more about this situation, which seems rather unusual to me.