Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to ask a question about indigenous-led forest stewardship and follow up on Mr. Weiler's question about the old growth fund.
For the past few years, my NDP colleagues and I have been pushing the government to provide funding for first nations communities on the coast, in order to ensure they can do indigenous-led forest stewardship. That funding should be short-term, to financially compensate them when deferrals are made; intermediate, for consultation within the community; and long-term, to implement the indigenous-led forest stewardship plans. I'm curious to know whether the old growth fund covers all three of these stages for supporting first nations in indigenous-led forest stewardship.
As a quick comment, we're pushing for $500 million, and this is a very small fraction of that.
Where is this funding going, and do you think it will be adequate to support nations in this work?