Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oh, definitely; definitely.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. What we have are these three funding streams. One is for prevention activities, to try to keep families together and children in the home. Then we have operations funding, which is to support the operations of the agencies. That includes rent and oth

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In 2008-09, there were 8,788 children in care on reserve. This was 5.4% of the children. The off-reserve, or non-aboriginal, was 0.92%.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of what we're doing on Jordan's Principle, we do have a group we work with at Health Canada where, if we are made aware of a case, we have identified focal points in both departments in our regional offices. When these cases are brought to our attention, we then branch o

Public Accounts committee  We've worked with each jurisdiction and analyzed what's happening in each province, looking at what they're doing in terms of prevention, jurisdiction by jurisdiction. We've put in place frameworks that outline the broad goals and objectives that are going to guide prevention. Wh

Public Accounts committee  One of the things we did when we renewed our authorities was to expand the range of placement options for communities. We added kinship care and post-adoption subsidies and supports. Those will, by their very nature, assist in providing more culturally appropriate services. As Mr

Public Accounts committee  We've been meeting with first nations. We started meeting with them in December to go over the validation. We're expecting to be completing that in March.

Public Accounts committee  On the performance measurements, yes.

Public Accounts committee  In terms of the previous funding formula, directive 20-1, that was based on a percentage of children in care. It provided a base operation for the agencies. There were some specific amounts provided for prevention. We supported salaries, a board of directors, and audit insurance.

Public Accounts committee  There are about 8,530 children in care right now.