It's under an agreement. It has to be used for particular purposes. It's a typical federal-provincial cost-sharing or financial kind of agreement, which we'd be happy to provide to you, if that's interesting.
On residential schools, that might be an issue you'll want to pursue later. Payments went out under the common experience payment, and payments are going out under the independent adjudication process to about 79,000 individuals. It's human nature that there are going to be some unfortunate results for some people who come into that kind of money.
What I could do, with other colleagues, who, by the way, were at the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on this very subject at ten o'clock this morning.... We've worked with communities, social services agencies, the RCMP, and financial institutions to try to reduce and mitigate those results. This cannot be error-free. It cannot be without some problems. People were very attentive to that. All the parties to the settlement agreement were very attentive to that and tried to do prevention, but there will be cases. Overall, I think, the experience has been a positive one. We could come back on that if you wish.
In terms of other provinces, as soon as we had our first agreement with Alberta, we were in contact with all other provinces. The minister was in contact with his counterparts and we were with others to say, “Here's something interesting and would you like to discuss it?” That's how we knew we had eager partners in Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. We know we have others that would like to join.
The problem with a tripartite is that you need three parties at the dance. You have to get the province ready. You need to have the first nations agencies ready. You have to come to some agreement on the accountability bargain. That's actually a lot of work. We think we have at least two or three other provinces in the on-deck circle.