Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks particularly to our civil servants for working hard both to maintain accountability and to improve our governance, and also to our department officials in responding, because it does appear there is a consequential response.
I'm aware, as I'm sure all of you are, that the 2016 budget proposed $2.6 billion of investments over five years in primary and secondary education for indigenous communities. There are already 156 projects under way, so clearly investments are being made.
I think its fair for Canadians to want that data collection around results to be done well. I think this is a fair conversation to be having.
I'd like to get some more information on what kind of information and recommendations indigenous representative organizations such as AFN, but not limited to AFN, have made to Indigenous Services Canada around the manner that the data should be collected and what kind of data should be collected.
We have a sense, but I'm specifically looking to hear what they are saying, as opposed to what our response is to what you heard them say.