That's indeed a very good question. If there are savings that are painless, the question that this raises is why these funds were not saved before.
One point that you raised that also concerns me—and I've raised it before—is savings in terms of grants and contributions to organizations. Typically, in the Indigenous Services and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs departments, if there are savings to be had for grants and contributions—and it's apparently after consultations with stakeholders—then I'm not certain that it will be easy to achieve a reduction in spending on grants and contributions to indigenous organizations. I don't see how these would be achieved if they don't reduce services to indigenous populations.
However, again, we have received very little information as to the details of that. That's something that will be quite interesting to see as it unfolds over the next fiscal year, the one that starts on April 1.