Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's quite a significant turnaround on the part of first nations. They had the opportunity to contribute to this process. They now believe that the government is finally doing something about processing these claims in a timely and fair manner.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, the clock will start again.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With the additions-to-reserve process, there is a discussion going on with the AFN as well about that policy and how best to revise it. So those discussions are under way—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Those who ask will get it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe it was, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Over $150 million.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're still engaged with the AFN to work out that process. As a matter of fact, I'm going to Vancouver on Thursday to meet with the AFN to finalize the process that we will agree on regarding how we're going to process these claims.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we provided funding for them to review their claim and to provide any additional evidence or case law that might apply since the claim had been filed.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, mediation was to continue until March 31. The inquiry side was shut down as of December 31. Now they're doing their final report.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Madame Dupuis decided to close the mediation function as of December 1, in effect.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  At the commission. We've been contracting with others to provide the mediation services until we can get a new mediation function in place.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There were about 18 claims still with the commission when the decision was taken to close the commission. We decided that the ones that were actually into the inquiry process should continue to the completion of the inquiry. For those claims that had not started into the inquiry process, we brought them back into the department and gave the first nations an opportunity to review the claim and to give us any new information they might have, and then we'll process them through our normal assessment.