What happened in the budget, as I'm sure you remember, is that the government declared its intention to have legislation in place by the end of this Parliament. There is a process under way with the Assembly of First Nations and other regional groups. We had a national panel on K-to-12 education, which went around the country and reported. You can find that report on our website, as well as the Auditor General's report, which gives advice, as well as the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples report, which gave advice.
There has been a lot of first nations input into this. I'm sure people will say that there wasn't enough, but we can document who participated in all of these things. And there will undoubtedly be further consultation before the bill is tabled next year.
The money for programming is.... While we expect a fairly noisy debate about the legislation, to get on with the school success programs and the partnerships on the ground, which are making a difference in outcomes, there was a significant investment in those in 2008 and there was another investment. If I remember the math, the Minister of Finance put in $275 million: $175 million went for schools and $100 million for programming, or the other way round. The idea is that we're not going to wait for the legislation to make progress on the ground with communities.
You're seeing partnerships. On the same theme, local school boards 10 years ago didn't want to talk to the Indian reserves in their community. There are all kinds of partnerships now on curriculum development, teacher training, and so on. Those are really starting to make a difference, and we're hoping the legislation will provide that structure of accountability that will accelerate progress.