Thank you, Madam Jamieson and Madam Tremblay, for your presentation. It was very informative, and I just want to thank you for your very positive outlook on life and the approach you're taking to this challenging issue.
It seems to me that you have a keen sense of affiliating your organization with the business community, and I think that has also likely shaped many of the principles under which you operate your foundation in terms of being efficient and operating from that perspective. I think that's a safe assumption, at least based on what I've heard from you.
My questioning will likely go along the lines of where, perhaps, we are in terms of post-secondary funding for first nations students. At the department level, we had some witnesses in our previous meeting, actually, from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and we asked them some questions relating to the parcel of funds that had been allocated, on an annual basis, towards funding first nations students at the post-secondary level. For that roughly $300 million, unfortunately, there is nowhere near the amount of tracking that you have in your successful organization, although what you have is quite small relative to that amount.
My question to you would be how your organization compares in the sense of providing tracking data. And what is your sense of where the current funding is right now that is being delivered by the federal government to first nations? How do your two organizations compare when a student applies for funding?
