Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here. It's been a few years since I was on aboriginal affairs but I'm happy to be back. During that time I was on public accounts, so I had some opportunities to go through some of the numbers over the years and again to take a look at some of the Auditor General's reports. Of course, I'm pleased to see that all of the recommendations were agreed to by your department to make sure that we are actually able to deal with the issues that are there as far as emergency management on reserves is concerned.
Dealing with the annex that was supplied in supplementary estimates (C), I notice there's $33.2 million that they're funding for on-reserve costs. I know that in November you were in Winnipeg and you announced the changes for this. I was just wondering if perhaps you could take a look at how the streamlining has taken place with this funding and how there's greater cooperation now being able to take place with provinces and territories. Perhaps you could just fine-tune a little bit of these details to find out how we can get some greater certainty for first nations that are dealing with emergencies.