Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll return to this question around cuts to Indigenous Services Canada, and I appreciate my colleague Mrs. Atwin adding the context of the general trend—or, as you called it, Mr. Giroux, a sharp increase in investment since 2021.
I think both she and I know that there is a strong argument to be made that even more money needs to be invested in indigenous communities, because we still see an inequality in outcomes, whether those outcomes are in health care or education or infrastructure. There is a massive infrastructure deficit in indigenous communities that still hasn't been fully addressed.
My question is really around this $417 million in cuts and whether that is going to result in a service delivery impact. This idea that the government increased the budget significantly and somehow overshot what the ideal budget investment is and that it now needs to reduce it a little bit to get to that perfect number seems a bit ludicrous, to my mind.
I am very interested in the question that we discussed last round, Mr. Giroux, around whether there is this slop in the budget that can simply be trimmed without any impact on service delivery or whether, in fact, indigenous communities are going to experience a tangible reduction in the services that they require.
Mr. Chair, if it's in order, I would like to move a very short motion: I move that the committee write to the Parliamentary Budget Officer and request an analysis of service delivery impacts stemming from budget cuts at Indigenous Services Canada and at Crown-Indigenous Relations.