Thank you.
I totally agree with you on the financing arrangements and agreements with the different first nations and the Métis and Inuit. It's a very complex issue and hard to track. We have a national indigenous organization table for the Métis, one for the first nations, one for the Inuit, and one for the land claims coalition, but the land claims coalition is broken up into two, those who have settled land claims and those who have settled self-government. We have pots of money flowing here but not to there, and then we have some on reserve and some off reserve.
I was hoping that somebody was providing oversight so that we could really keep a good eye on how things are going. I'm not sure if money is flowing to all different aboriginal and indigenous governments across Canada. That's concerning, because some of those people are in my riding. We have a huge deficit when it comes to trying to bring indigenous people up to the Canadian standard of living. Many people have posed the question to me, how do we ensure that the money is sufficient so that we can try to tackle some of these big issues? They've suggested that maybe we should look at tying the investment to the GDP, a percentage of the GDP. Is that something we can consider?