Thank you for the question.
I wouldn't say that the money was blocked. It's just that there was no question of spending the money without knowing what the communities involved wanted done.
The communities told us that the government was making unilateral decisions during the residential school era and that this was the source of the issue. While the discussions concerned the children who died, there was no question of going back to that era of unilateral decision‑making by the federal government.
We conducted consultations to find out how the communities wanted to proceed. We listened to them. The response announced yesterday is based on what we heard.