Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right. Unlike all the other generic things, such as births and deaths and adoptions and marriages, this is a specific set of tests that are clear on the website. You start with who your grandmother was. It should be relatively straightforward to sort out whether applicatio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's about $20 million, give or take. What we're really trying to do is have an efficient process that deals with people coming into the registry for all kinds of reasons. We're going to handle the cases related to the Qalipu Nation in Newfoundland, we're going to handle the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're trying to bring together the card issuance with the registry process. Bill C-3 is an opportunity to try that out with a specific target population to perfect our business process. If we can do it well for the Bill C-3 intake, we'll be able to do it for everybody over the ne

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I hope that wasn't the impression--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're at the table with the Innu and we're at the table with the Métis group, the NCC. I'll have to get back to you specifically on where the negotiators are at this point. I'm aware that the Métis group is in court trying to block the entire environmental assessment process arou

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have very current information for you, Mr. Russell. We'll have to get back to you through the clerk, if that's possible. I know that we have the material. It's under review by the lawyers and others. I know that it overlaps significantly with the Innu claim, and that is g

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It has none. It's delivered by the Department of Public Safety, so it's speculation about another department's program. I really shouldn't go there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Well, we're all waiting to see the federal budget in a couple of weeks, and perhaps I can give you a more definitive answer in April, when we come back for main estimates. We've made a pitch for additional resources. We'll see what happens, and if we don't get additional res

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When you actually look at the cases, they're not as ready as they may look. Lots of people would like to be ready, but there are a number of things that have to be ticked off in terms of environmental assessments and regulations being in place, and so on. We will move as many fir

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a combination. We need to allocate resources for this activity, and you have to have proposals that are good to go. And I think we'll be able to move a significant number of nations through next year.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll either obtain additional resources in the budget or move vote 10 resources or vote 1 resources from other uses to FNLMA. But it's always the same issue: If you want to put more resources into one thing, something else has to give.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  But the projects weren't ready.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a very linear process, and we are working with the board. We would like to unclog it and move as many nations through next year as we can. I won't know how many that's going to be until I know a bit more about the resourcing of the department. But we would like to squeeze th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two acronyms, which you have probably heard being thrown around: one is ATR, and the other is TLE. The two kind of overlap. A treaty land entitlement is exactly what it sounds like. In the prairie treaties there was an entitlement to land. What was promised would vary s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Minister Duncan has been given responsibility for the project and for the associated things, like the impact fund. The project is at a point where it's basically come out of the regulatory process. The joint review panel is done; the NEB process is done. There are a number of lic