Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It could do, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's an addition. It's in cases of specific abuse. The common experience payment went to everyone who was at a residential school, and as I said, only some of them actually suffered specific cases of sexual or physical abuse.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's difficult to speak for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation because it is an independent one. It has prepared a number of volumes of summaries of impacts that the residential school system had that I feel form part of a very important historical record. It is also working with communities on individual projects to promote healing.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, the language of the agreement was negotiated between the parties. Do you want to comment on this, Paul?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I referred to it in my speech. Would you like me to run through that again?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It reflects the fact that at a residential school children are in the care of members of the religious order that runs it, or the teachers that run it, as opposed to their parents. The intergenerational impacts of that, of course, are quite severe, in that when children grow up in a loving and kindly atmosphere, they tend to treat their own children that way.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They were in loco parentis, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The language in the school?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We certainly work within the terms of the agreement but, as I said, to try to put the benefit of the doubt in favour of the applicants.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, there is interpretation and there's a growing interpretation as we go through the appeals. The information that we're getting from that will be precedential.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it does. Again, speaking for my colleague, a very thorough research process goes on. I think, with all due respect, the people who go to these hearings are very often, as I've mentioned already, in a fragile mental state--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They're traumatized, and they get traumatized all over again. Their recollection of the process they go through, and the kinds of reasons we give, could be difficult for them to take in. Again, it's very important that if you hear about one of these, you encourage them to work with their health support worker to try to work through this.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there was. The community impacts working group did discuss, as you said, the possibilities of adverse impacts. For instance, we worked with band administrators to make sure that information was available on how to make a will, how to manage an estate, because for the first time people would have substantial amounts of money to leave, potentially.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can comment from the point of view of the government, perhaps not so much from the point of view of the churches. Government has, as you know, certain accountability requirements that have to be met. My colleague who'll be before you in a few minutes is the acting executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is the CEP line, which is a service line.