Sir, with great respect, it's great to have partnerships, but this isn't an instance of us supporting Canadian institutions that are then partnering with other institutions. As I can see on your website, these are cases of grants and contributions to academic institutions in the United States, public and private academic institutions, some that are famous for having massive endowments. Typically, it would be normal, in another developed country at least, for those to be funded by the country in question.
I'm not satisfied by your answer, and I would hope that you could come back to the committee with more detail in writing. I'm not asking you to provide very specific details about an individual grant. I'm asking about the policy.
I have another question. How do you define if an organization is indigenous for the purposes of identifying indigenous organizations to receive funding? How do you verify claims that may be made about indigeneity?