Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I certainly appreciate your being here today, Minister. Of course, it's great to have your staff here. We're quite familiar with them here at committee.
When I looked through the performance reports for 2006-07 in the fisheries management program activity, the aboriginal policy in governance planned spending was $119 million; the actual was $116 million. If you look at the aboriginal policy in governance for 2008-09 and the three years out there, it's between $114 million and $117 million. It oscillates a little.
Given that the government has a bill before the House of Commons right now that, if passed, would seriously accelerate the rate at which aboriginal land claims are resolved, has that been taken into consideration in your planned spending?