Thank you, Mr. Minister.
I understand your empathy and the work you want to do, but I'm thinking of the members of all first nations and the questions they're asking us about funding. They're telling us that some residential school survivors are seeing their time run out and they'd like to make peace with the past.
I have a question about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action 72 to 76. In the Supplementary Estimates (C) 2021-2022, your department plans to provide just over $40 million in grants to implement these calls. In addition, $33.8 million was announced in the 2019 budget and it took until 2021 to re-announce $27 million from this envelope.
How are you going to ensure that the funding you are planning to grant can be used in a practical way so that first nations stop waiting?
Thank you.