John Aldag at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

I have a point of order, Madam Chair.

I'm trying to understand. This is fascinating, but I call a question on relevance to the hearing that we're doing today.

We've invited the Parliamentary Budget Officer here specifically, as the notice of meeting says, “on the Research and Comparative Analysis on the Estimates of the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Department of Indigenous Services”. We're not here to talk about the Prime Minister's spending on defence and other things. There's Arctic sovereignty, if it's framed within the context of the study, but I'm not seeing any relevance.

I'm wondering if you could give us a ruling on this.

I know there's not a lot of time left, but—