It's what's called the Indian Welfare Agreement and it applies in Ontario. Over a decade ago, in 2000, there was a call for a joint review of that particular formula. Of course there were calls at the community level much before that. In a formal way, the department agreed to that over a decade ago, but there has been no movement on it. Again in 2008 the Auditor General called for it. There is still no movement on it.
However, there is an opportunity for all of you to insist, in a respectful way, that the department do that on the basis of expert opinion. It's important to have economists, etc. It's not enough to entrust taxpayers' money to a bunch of people who are public servants in finance. I mean no disrespect, but the development of funding formulas is a specialized field of economics called econometrics. It involves that, and it should be surrounded by first nations community members and driven from the ground up on the basis of the needs of the kids.