Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are 462 first nations schools on reserve, I believe. In terms of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report, we are still in the process of working our way through the numbers and the methodology. One of the challenges the Parliamentary Budget Officer had was that they were using what we call the integrated capital management system, which was a new system that was being implemented.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think Michael Wernick, the deputy, mentioned when he was here at public accounts that we are currently undertaking analysis of the report, and Mr. Wernick would be writing to the Parliamentary Budget Officer outlining some of the issues we find with that report.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm very sorry, I don't know specifically what that announcement was about today.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That wasn't the approach we took in designing those two programs. As Ms. Keenan said, we looked at international as well as domestic research and designed two new programs for what we thought would result in improved student outcomes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sorry, you're referring to the February—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Are you looking nationally or for Quebec?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For Quebec...and your year was since 2006.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I can't locate the Canada ones, but I can certainly get the committee those numbers.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Lévesque. No. We are providing this information just as an illustration. Averages cannot be used to calculate exactly what is required. The provinces have different formulas, and they include different things. In British Columbia, for example, the province includes an amount for languages.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are having discussions with the first nations at the moment, both nationally and regionally. In British Columbia, for example, they have some ideas as to a fair formula or their financial requirements. It is not necessarily the same type of formula as the one put forward by Quebec.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I'm going to ask my colleague, Mrs. Keenan, to respond.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That would change the numbers, but we absolutely agree with you that we think investments in early childhood education would be extremely beneficial. The research shows that every dollar you invest in early childhood is going to have the biggest payoff in terms of remaining school success.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm not aware of any assets that are being contemplated in such a review. As this committee is probably aware, INAC doesn't actually own assets, meaning infrastructure. In first nations communities, those assets are owned by those first nations.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. I think you asked that question when we were here for main estimates as well. There are two things that we have under way. One is that we received an audit on post-secondary education, and we've developed a management action plan to address that. The second is the review that was announced in Budget 2008.