Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is $240 million.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are working with a national association called the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association. There are very specific program elements. We provide roughly about $7.8 million in financing to that association, which then works through that national network to develop t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do work very closely at the official level with these regional development agencies on technical program advisory committees and things of this nature, so we do share some financing with some of the aboriginal financial institutions. We have a delivery partnership, and then AC

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that opportunity. There are a number of other federal departments that do play a role in the microfinance or access to capital area. The regional development agencies work closely with a network of about 23 aboriginal community future development corporations. The

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to the specific leasing and those types of guarantees, what we've done is have program interventions that actually help mitigate the risks so there's access to the equity, which triggers the debt finance. But it's not so much on just the pure legalities of it. It's m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. We build financial literacy through a number of means. We have a program called aboriginal business and entrepreneurship development at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. We have a small amount of grants and contributions funding and we work