Public Accounts committee  You'd like an extrapolation of that.

Public Accounts committee  I don't know if there actually has been an analysis done looking at—

Public Accounts committee  Treasury Board actually would operate on the basis of a broader ask around infrastructure—

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  The actual process, Madam Chair, is that you actually get policy approval of an initiative, and then Treasury Board—

Public Accounts committee  Well, sir, we are asking for it. It's not a matter of not asking for it. I'm not sure if you're clear on how—

Public Accounts committee  I think those are longer-term discussions that continue with the community. Joanne, do you want to comment very quickly?

Public Accounts committee  I wasn't there at the time, but I can only imagine that it was highly disruptive. Valerie?

Public Accounts committee  It is preliminary, but we are supposed to come back with a detailed action plan.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. That is the preliminary.... We had one week to turn that around, so we have a little more time to provide a detailed one.

Public Accounts committee  I think that if plans are not already in place, we won't make that decision on our own. I'd ask Joanne to speak to the current status of discussions with Kashechewan.

Public Accounts committee  I think that's the direction we're going in. Joanne, I think you referred to being able to redirect those resources to prevention.

Public Accounts committee  We will prepare a report for our next meeting with this committee and will keep it regularly updated. The department does not set its own budget. Parliament does that. I would like your support to ensure more resources to first nations for emergency management going forward. If parliamentarians were to approve increased resources to the department, we would be happy to administer them.

Public Accounts committee  You asked before who is responsible and I was going to continue with a response that I now have the chance to give. I thank you for that, because I want to say again—and I know you don't want to hear it—we are all responsible to an extent. It is money, but it's not only money. I would say that if you, as a committee, want to hold us accountable, ask us to come back and provide you with a comprehensive action plan.

Public Accounts committee  We are going to be doing that through—