Human Resources committee  With respect to the outcomes for young kids, we're starting to see an increasing amount of research that is giving us a fairly accurate face of where investments are being made and what the outcomes are. Increasingly, our understanding is, the earlier you make those investments,

Human Resources committee  Certainly. We have a number of studies we could provide.

Human Resources committee  Again, in the instance of this clause, looking at what is determined to be a child care service, it's who provides that service. In the context of these amendments, you would need to ensure that you're capturing all organizations that provide child care services to aboriginal peo

Human Resources committee  A Métis local, indeed.

Human Resources committee  In an aboriginal context, it would certainly depend on the organization you were looking at. In some cases, you may well be looking at a fairly small service organization that's providing a small amount of programming in a small community, where indeed reporting could be onerous.

Human Resources committee  It would seem to be a reasonable concern.

Human Resources committee  The funding that we provide to aboriginal organizations for child care would be under the auspices of contribution agreements. Insofar as contributions agreements are concerned, it would be a cash contribution. If that's what's meant by this definition, then indeed it would affec

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure of the intent of this committee or the drafters, so I can't comment on that. But if the intent is to include contribution agreements, then it would capture programming offered by my department.

Human Resources committee  All I could say is that I've not seen this particular wording used in other legislation.

Human Resources committee  I wasn't here on the day the AFN appeared. I did understand that their position was that they would look for some arrangement to allow first nations to make their own decisions, yes.

Human Resources committee  I think it would be subject to interpreting the effect of adding this in against the whole bill. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not in a great position to offer you advice on that aspect.

Human Resources committee  You'd need an aboriginal law expert, and as far as I know, we don't have any aboriginal law experts here.

Human Resources committee  Funding flows to aboriginal organizations via my department, Health Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada through programming that is specific to supporting child care programming arrangements in aboriginal communities, so it would be a federal government program.

Human Resources committee  In that context, yes.

Human Resources committee  It's a possible interpretation, yes.