Thank you.
I want to thank you for your cooperation. I hope you don't feel that you're being grilled down here. I really appreciate your good answers. You have a massive department, which means we have a lot of questions. I wish we had more time with you.
I want to laud you for your plans and priorities report, which we finally got, because you have in there, on page 27, the whole description, supposedly, of delivering on the Prime Minister's undertaking on this new cooperative nation-to-nation relationship. It's described there.
I notice also that in the main estimates you actually come and say that, for the department, one of the efforts is to have first nations “participate more fully” in the political process. In the plans and priorities report, you allocate almost $800 million, going down to $360 million, to forge this new relationship. But what I find puzzling is where we find that in the main estimates or the supplementaries. I would have thought there would be an actual line now. Is it intended that this will happen sort of by the by, through everything else that is going on? I'm surprised that there's not a line in the estimates and the budget for this new process, which would have costs of its own.