Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming. I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of departments on estimates, but I don't think I've ever had Indian Affairs and Northern Development in front of me.
First of all, I want to thank you for the work you and your staff do. I know that it's very important work, with challenging files in many cases. I do appreciate everything you do.
Just because I don't know.... I'm not trying to criticize here; I need to understand a little bit. All the supplementary (B)s are at $2.5 billion, or $2.8 billion with statutory added in, so there's $2.5 billion in voted stuff. Your total is just shy of half a billion dollars. Is it a norm for the department that you have fairly large supplementary (B)s, or is this an exceptional year?