This funding is extremely important. It's about $13 million for the indigenous advisory monitoring committee. That's an important part of the safe operation of both Line 3 and the Trans Mountain pipeline. Indigenous monitors are full participants on the ground in terms of compliance verification, safety management expansions, environmental protection inspections, emergency management exercise audits and verifying that the Fisheries Act and the Species at Risk Act are complied with.
The funding will ensure that the indigenous advisory and monitoring committee is able to continue its operations, conduct training and build capacity further. I have met with this committee on a number of bases. They do enormously good work. To be honest, I think they and many Canadians are shocked about the fact that the Conservative leader's legislative vandalism is blocking their ability to continue their good work.