Thank you for that.
When we looked at equitable access as part of our audit, we focused on the available funds. We didn't do a direct comparison of amounts available to indigenous versus non-indigenous communities.
As the Auditor General said, the policy for this program is explicit that equitable funding arrangements should be in place. We did ask the department how that was determined, and they hadn't defined it. Further to that, they didn't have any approach on how they were going to allocate funds equitably to the people who were recipients of the program.