Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks for coming before the committee.
I think it's unfortunate we only have an hour to deal with this range of the Auditor General's report, so I'm going to start--it's probably no surprise--with family and child services.
When you were before the public accounts committee, or whoever was before the public accounts committee, I think the issue came up around comparability. In a written response to that committee, the response touches on provincial comparability, which I'm still not clear about. Does INAC recognize the studies that were done in 2000, under the national policy review, that estimated federal child welfare funding was 22% below provincial funding levels, and the Wen:de report in 2005 that found a minimum of $109 million per year in additional funding was needed to account for the shortfall? Those were two comparability studies to the province. Is the department using those studies?