Thank you, Madam Chair.
Minister, since you highlighted it in your speech today with the one-time doubling of the gas tax fund for municipalities, under the previous Conservative government we introduced, as you know, the new building Canada plan, which was dedicated funding for first nations infrastructure under the gas tax fund national infrastructure component. The funding was being delivered and managed by INAC at the time.
How are indigenous communities currently receiving the gas tax fund, and how will they receive the doubling of the gas tax fund? Is it through municipalities, or is it still directly through INAC or what is now called Indigenous Services? Is the allocation of funding for bands determined on a per capita basis similar to how the provinces deliver the gas tax to municipalities?