Thank you very much for that question. I couldn't have asked for a better question.
When we look across the board, we look at potential impacts to rights, accommodation and offsets. We look at opportunities for equity. From our perspective here at the centre, we need to ensure that first nations respectively as autonomous nations have capacity in their band offices, in-house, on reserve. We also need that support for regional [Technical difficulty—Editor] organizations like the centre of excellence that works on behalf of first nations and is there to assist and support nations as well.
Ongoing sustainable core funding for organizations like ours will definitely assist in the facilitation, the knowledge sharing, the education and the capacity building of our first nations. We work on behalf of them. We play that role as an interface between government, industry and first nations. It's a very important component of the work that we do.
We're building out a major projects tracker that relates to impact assessments, consultation, project tracking and all those types of things. We're also building out and have built out, for that matter, a recruitment portal and framework for indigenous people and indigenous businesses in Saskatchewan so that, once projects are moving forward, we're helping with the recruitment of our people and bringing forward our businesses as vendors on our own two feet as first nations in Saskatchewan.
I think that's very important from a local perspective.
