Welcome to our witnesses.
To Grand Chief Picard, regarding the ongoing investment in first nations education, you're asking for an immediate release in your budget ask of the $1.9 billion for first nations education, and at the same time your organization was involved in the drafting of this. I'm not quite certain what has happened. There seems to be toing and froing over the dollars. It's budget 2014.
We have to find a way to make sure that money goes out to first nations. I don't think there is any argument on any side of the table that it happen. How do we do that and how do we make sure there is an equal level of expertise, and that all the first nations are involved in first nations education? How do we distribute those dollars in partnership? The one thing you've heard at this table was partnership, collaboration, and best practices. That's the one thing I've not heard from you, so you need to enlighten me.