Finance committee  Yes. Absolutely. I established a concept called the indigenomics economic mix, 12 levers to support the economic design of the indigenous economy. Some of those levers include entrepreneurship, equity, capital, clean energy, procurement and trade, to begin to look at those levers of indigenous economic design and invest into those structures, moving outside of the emphasis on particularly programs and services.

Finance committee  Thank you. There have been technical difficulties. I am coming from B.C. today, so thank you for having me. In regard to your first question, my focus area in particular is bringing the foundation of a $100-billion national indigenous economy to Canada's awareness and the realization that this is happening in spite of the Indian Act.

Finance committee  Essentially there's a need for understanding that the growth of the indigenous economy is not going to happen in programs and services. It needs tools. It needs structures. It needs design. If we look back into the budgets to understand where we're seeing tools, structures and resources for design, there are examples like the $150-million entrepreneurship fund and initiatives like the 5% indigenous procurement target.