Mr. Chair, I can advise the honourable member that at the time we conducted this audit, Indian Affairs had shifted approximately $500 million from capital facilities, operations and maintenance, income assistance, housing, and post-secondary education to child and family services, to provincial elementary and secondary education, and to some smaller areas such as economic development.
Child and family services had required approximately $116 million a year more in funding, which was taken from these different areas that I mentioned.
In constant dollars, per capita housing expenditures, as a result of these reallocations, have declined by approximately 40% over the last decade.