Arnold Viersen at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair; and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.

I welcome Herb to the committee. I got to know him fairly well over the last few years, and he does great work.

You talked about the $50 million that they're looking for in bridge funding. I wonder if you could outline a little around what has happened to the Métis settlements over the last five years, essentially, and where the revenues they normally have been funded with have dried up.