We also heard other departments say, “Frankly, it's none of your business what the money's for”, and here's an example of $65 million being pre-approved by parliamentarians when it was the completely wrong department.
I'd like to know what else there is. I'm looking at Indigenous Services. There is $140 million withheld for the new fiscal relationship for self-governing, $65 million withheld for a new fiscal relationship strengthening first nations institutions, $75 million withheld for the reprofiling of indigenous infrastructure allocation, $25 million withheld for distinctions-based housing strategies.
Again, why did we go through the process of a vote 40 which takes away a fair amount of accountability and oversight of Parliament, pre-approve items, just to find out, well, we're going to withhold them and not spend the money because they can't get by Treasury Board, or we don't need the money, or we're not going to be able to roll it out anyway?