Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to reiterate that we've had a program in place for a number of years. There have been about 175 projects funded and carried out with communities under this program.
Yes, more money is always a good thing, and we're very pleased that the government has decided to allocate further resources through the budget, subject to parliamentary approval, of course. So we will be able to do better and do more, and certainly the Auditor General has pointed out that we need to do more.
If we were able to, with very limited resources, carry out 175 projects over the last 11 years, including two audits—we completed one in 2005 and are now completing another major audit involving all of the Northwest Territories—I think we should be able to do very well with the additional funds.
I'd like to remind you that those funds are to support both the monitoring program in the NWT and the general monitoring program, which has been co-developed with the Nunavut government as well, as the land claims signatory.