Thank you for being here this morning.
This is one of those unusual mornings on which some of us have just come from the aboriginal affairs committee, where in fact we were talking about child protection and some of the disparities in funding between aboriginal and non-aboriginal children. We had the opportunity to hear from representatives of Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan, so there's a certain coming together between the two meetings this morning.
I want to talk about the enhanced funding approach. Dr. Blackstock referred to it. My understanding is that it was an approach developed by INAC and implemented by INAC.
I'm interested in knowing what kind of consultation took place with first nations communities and first nations authorities in the development of this approach. I want to know on what research it was based. Was there research done? What was that research? Also, what kind of evaluation has been carried out to date on this?