When you take all of the funding provided for K-to-12 education and you compare it to all of the funding for K-to-12 education in the provinces, it compares at least as favourably as the money going in per student. The problem is the per capita amount doesn't tell you the whole story and it's about the opportunities that the students need.
There are all sorts of factors in terms of remoteness. What the provincial funding formula looks at, the majority of their children are in large urban areas. The majority of first nations students are in remote rural areas. We know it costs a lot less per student to fund in an urban area than it does in a rural area.