Thank you so much, Madame Chair.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm going to make this very quick because I have only two minutes, as you know.
I want to table a document, which we have here, where we have asked the Government of Canada to provide us with information on the funding it has provided.
I'm going to skip over housing and a number of health issues, and the billions and billions of dollars that are allocated and spent every year on this, to quickly say that in terms of Justice, which I think was raised here, there was an investment in 2011-12 for $12.5 million, which brings the total federal investment to nearly $100 million since 2007.
I could go on about the aboriginal courtwork program—over 200 courtworkers and $5.5 million a year, etc.—but I'm going to table these documents, which detail the millions and millions of dollars that are spent on programs and services. We could sit here for a millennium and talk about whether that's not enough, how these services should be provided, and through which streams.
Of course, we totally support the fact that first nations should be developing their own systems within their own reserves. What I want to focus on, though, given my lack of time, is what you said on page 1 of your own presentation, that “the need for fair, available and accessible systems to deal with matrimonial real property on reserves is an urgent human rights matter”.
This issue, as you know, has been identified for 25 years as being a gap in legislation. This is a bill that's been in the works, back and forth between government, for over four or five years.