Transport committee  I think there is a tremendous opportunity for our members and other indigenous communities across this country to be leaders in clean energy and net-zero project development. Certainly that falls within the bank's mandate. I know and I've heard from many of our members that they

Transport committee  Thank you. I think there are a couple of ways to answer that. There are varying sizes and scales of projects. With respect to the comments that Chief Gale has made and the mandate of our organization, we're focused on projects with a capital cost of $100 million or more. These

Transport committee  Without knowing the details I can't comment on a project-specific basis. I can tell you that there is a huge capacity in indigenous communities when it comes to getting projects off the ground. Our organization exists to help fill some of those gaps, but when you're dealing with

Transport committee  Thanks, Chief Gale. The only thing I would add for the committee's consideration is that we've been approached by our members in northern Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba, who want to take advantage of the government's recent announcement about broadband. As Chief Gale alluded

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just briefly here, I will build on the chief's comments. What success looks like for us in this pilot project is to take the last three years of our work, our technical models, and begin to apply them in a capacity sense to get this project off the ground. While the project may