Good morning, and thank you for the presentation.
I remember great debates over the ancestry question as opposed to the identity question, which changed in 2001 or something of that nature, I believe, in terms of the surveys that were being conducted and the census data that were being collected.
My question is not so much for you guys. I think there's only one indicator, from your presentation, of an area in which the aboriginal population might be better off than the non-aboriginal population in terms of housing. Other than that, almost every indicator would say we're worse off in the aboriginal communities, and it doesn't matter where we live—in the Arctic, in small rural areas, or in metropolitan areas. The word “crisis” comes to mind, although there may have been some marginal improvement in some areas.
Mr. Chair, has this been directed to the parliamentary secretary? I don't know if that's appropriate or not. We had a lot of housing money announced—hundreds of millions of dollars, apparently, in housing money. Can we get an update? Where is that? Has it been disbursed to the provinces? There were supposed to be trusts, but now I understand no trusts are being set up and what was announced has gone to the provinces and is being disbursed through the existing housing regimes already in place.
Can we get that answered for the committee?