Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Honourable members, thank you for the invitation to discuss the Supplementary Estimates (A) for fiscal year 2017-18 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. I would like to draw the committee's attention to the deck entitled 2017-18 Supple

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  All right. This will bring the total investment for the department to approximately $10.8 billion for 2017-18 to address the needs of indigenous peoples and northerners. On slide 3 of the presentation, with respect to financial highlights, the net increase of some $150.1 milli

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. McLeod, for the question. You are correct that prior to budget 2016 in particular, we were about $9 billion, but in budget 2016, which was $8.4 billion over a five-year investment in indigenous peoples, the first year was about $1.2 billion of that amou

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. Given the significant impact of our supplementary estimates related to specific claims, my colleague Stephen Gagnon, who is the director general responsible for that program, will be best able to respond to your question, sir.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I might just.... Sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that, Mr. McLeod. As you know, budget 2016 provided $80 million over two fiscal years for housing, for northern and Inuit housing in that regard. As of March 2017, $25.5 million of it was allocated by INAC to Inuit land claim holders in the Nunavik, Nunatsiavut,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You are correct that in budget 2017 we received an allocation of $4 billion over 10 years, together with Health and Public Safety, in order to deal with infrastructure needs, including housing. It's also to include within that allocation, yet to be defined, an allocation for Inui

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Territorial housing is provided through the transfers between the federal government and the territories.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our commitment is to the Inuit land claim holders.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Out of the $10.8 billion, approximately $950 million is for vote 1. Vote 1 is to be used for about $300-odd million to deal with legal obligations that we have related to residential schools and legal obligations on contaminated sites. The actual amount for the operations of the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's out of that $10.8 billion.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That funding agreement.... We make the funding agreement. It's signed with chief and council, and we do hope that the funding agreement is made available to the community members. That is a document that I believe, in terms of that, we put...that's a public... That should be publ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do hope that the governance and accountability between chief and council and their community members will permit that, obviously, to happen first. We want to respect the governance of a community in terms of that happening, and if not, they have recourse to INAC in order to mak

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Chris, can I turn it over to you with regard to the question related to the youth employment strategy?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's proactive disclosure that we do on all grants and contributions, so the public knows.