I'll try to deal with those quickly, Mr. Chairman.
You won't find them in the supplementaries because these are reductions that only kick in next year and, for the most part, in 2014-15. They were announced with a fair bit of lead time for people to make adjustments—both the tribal councils and the representative organizations. They will show up in future estimates in terms of line items.
In some ways, I guess, you'd want to be asking the Minister of Finance about resource allocation, but I'll do my best. If you're given a target to find reduction scenarios of 5% and 10%, you identify particular areas. The minister, certainly with my full support, decided to protect various areas.
We didn't touch the residential schools agreement. We didn't touch education. We didn't touch water and waste water. We didn't touch northern programs and so on. As you start to pull back from the total spending, there are only so many areas you can go to. We took a 10% reduction on the operations of the department—480 positions—so we know very well that we had to set an example and try to take the hit first on our own operations and bureaucracy.
The second sort of concentric circle out there was reductions to the aboriginal representative organizations and tribal councils. We never expected them to be happy about that, but we're trying to create fairly clear structures in terms of separating the role of the advocacy political organizations, on the one hand, from the tribal councils, which will move more and move into service delivery in the future, and to create a tiering structure that actually incents them to merge and form larger entities over time. We're seeing some early evidence that people are starting to discuss that. We're still in the period where they're unhappy about the funding reductions. That's a resource allocation decision.
All in, I think the minister would want me to underline that with the 5% scenario and the 10% scenario, the reduction to the department was 2.7% all in, mostly on operations, and was more than offset by the additional investments in water and education.