Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll work with regional development agencies to support specific projects by specific businesses. These are basically SME support programs, and we know who is really good at logistics, because we spent three years studying and renovating this program. Canada is actually really g

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Pardon me?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we'll answer all your requests through the committee clerk.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and there are too many examples of that. We have a lot more cooperation from the provinces now. If they're going to deal with a watershed or a river system, they are very open now to including the first nation communities in that planning. I can think of examples, and we c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know what's in the budget. I don't know if the budget's going to be approved, and apparently we don't know if it's even going to be delivered. So maybe I should answer that question in April, when we come back.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are a couple of things I can help clarify.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll go very quickly. One of the issues with the former program was that it was a transport subsidy, so it was actually vulnerable to the price of aviation fuel. When we had a spike in oil prices, there was a spike in the price of aviation fuel, and the program costs went up. I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are quite a few facets to this area, as you've identified. The way we have dealt with the basic financing is that you cannot know where acts of God will land, where the floods and fires and evacuations will be. We have a system in place that works very closely with the fir

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We always work with the first nations or the tribal councils of the authorities on identifying their needs and doing emergency management response plans, integrating them as closely as possible with the local response and alert sorts of things. There is a lot more to be done, bu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, we do work with the provincial authorities on diking and prevention and all those sorts of things. What we're trying to do is avoid what happened in the past, when sometimes the province would invest in diking and forget about the reserve, because it was--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In response to your first question, we can provide the lists of specific projects. For the fiscal year starting on April 1, there will be a list of schools, treatment plants and so on. We can provide you with very specific lists from our budget for next year. As for housing, the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When the Government of Canada provides information, it's in both languages. In addition, we often add information in aboriginal languages. If you have any specific suggestions to make regarding the communities and what we can provide, send them to us.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The minister referred to the bill. It's a significant accomplishment. It's also going to be a significant piece of work to implement it. We have some resources in place for the registration process, and we've set up a dedicated unit to deal with Bill C-3 claims, some of which are

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Since January 31, we have received about another 4,000, so we're just under 8,000 applications in the door. The projections under the Clatworthy study and others were that we would get about 70,000 applications, of which about 45,000 would be successful. It's too early to know if

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  But we actually have registered our first, if you want to call them that, C-3 Indians. About 220 people have received registration.