Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a mixture.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Floods.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The key question here is the availability of documentation, as you pointed out. Quite clearly, some of these documents are in institutions that burnt down or flooded, as you pointed out. We're working very closely, Ms. Wilson in particular, with the various church agencies. In the provinces, for example, we have an agreement with the Northwest Territories to access their information.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. This is really a very important matter, Mr. Chairman. As I just mentioned, the common experience payment will come into effect once the agreement we have entered into with the churches and the first nations' groups has been approved. We are waiting for this agreement to be approved by the eighth judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our figures yesterday showed that we have paid $8,000 to 10,338 individuals, for a total of $82,700, 000. Mr. Chairman, the total number of people who have applied for payment is 13,447. Our demographic analysis anticipated that the number of applicants would be 13,500. I mentioned that, because in the future, there will be questions asked about our forecasting models.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I would like to put this into context. First of all, the residential school issue concerns individuals. It all depends on the sufferings and experiences they endured in the residential schools. We have the same minister as Mr. Wernick, but we have departmental status.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My comments on the supplementary estimates (B) will be brief because they are comprised of only two items. There are two items in supplementary estimates (B), and both of them are transfers from one organization to another. A remaining transfer of $50.5 million was made from the Department of Canadian Heritage for the control and supervision of the office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada.