Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think I'll just keep going with the discussion around COVID and the supports we offered.
I have to agree. When I talked to first nations across the country, they said it was the first time that they had seen an issue in this government when, with respect to indigenous communities, we didn't try to control where all the funding went but instead created a flexible approach and said, “Here is what you need, and here's what we're going to give to you.”
Based on the success of getting through COVID by providing money and working with indigenous communities, did we learn any lessons about how we can more efficiently get money out the door to indigenous communities, not only in times of great need, such as during COVID, but also for the various other crises that communities are dealing with? Could both departments speak to that a little bit?