Ms. Catherine Adam (Senior Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Results and Delivery Officer, Strategic and Service Policy Branch, Department of Employment and Social Development) at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

I am very cognizant of what you said on siloing issues, but the reality is that Jordan's principle is an important funding base to ensure that indigenous children are receiving the same kinds of services, commensurate with what we're seeing provinces and territories provide. It's about not having these children and their development, in a sense, set back, as jurisdictions may argue back and forth over who has accountability on the issue. Jordan's principle really does run through Indigenous Services Canada and through Crown-Indigenous Relations—