Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's quite a potential out there. One of the largest reasons to add land to reserves is outstanding obligations under the prairie treaties, which you'll be familiar with, in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and other parts of the country. At the original time of taking treaty the na

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not ever, Mr. Bagnell, just in recent days. One of my predecessors was there for 26 years, and I have no intention of trying to break his record.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Aboriginal Healing Foundation to the best of my knowledge is alive and well and still has resources, and got additional resources from the churches last year. The government contribution was reduced in last year's budget, as we discussed at this committee before. I'm not awa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The resource revenue sharing issues would be decided by the Department of Finance, the Minister of Finance. They're caught up in territorial financing agreements, all of which I think run their course a year from now, if I'm correct. The whole territorial formula financing--TFF,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two parts to that. The common experience payment simply goes to anyone who could demonstrate that they attended one of the eligible residential schools. There was a fair bit of work done before the government agreed to the settlement agreement. The projection done abo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a fair bit of detail on our website. In ballpark terms, if it's helpful to you, there was originally about $1.8 billion or $1.9 billion set aside in an account for this purpose. We'll have spent about $1.6 billion, I think, before we close, which leaves a remainder. The

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think my numbers, which are about a month old, show just shy of 18,000 claims. A little less than half have had their hearing and have had a disposition. So about 7,000 have had full decisions rendered. The claims are generally paid out within about three weeks of the actual he

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's important to be clear that it's not a government program; it is a court-administered settlement agreement and the judges supervise and make all the decisions about this. We are on track for the original agreement plan, and we will be putting out notices in March and April th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Additions to reserve are exactly what they sound like: it's taking land and adding it to an existing Indian reserve. Most of these south of 60 involve dealing with provincial crown land, so the process involves the province making land available and then we go through a legal pro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I try not to talk out the clock. I do have an answer to Ms. Crowder's question if we could just tack it on, at least as far as the north goes. Actually, it's timely, the money in these supplementary estimates for the general monitoring programs up north responds directly to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The reprofiling is entirely about capital projects, and it's because of deadlines. It would have been a little irresponsible to try to force the Six Nations project. The bidding would have come in so high that we would have spent too much on the project. So we're simply going to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right. And that's true of another project as well. We just didn't think forcing it before March would have been smart project management. In the base of the department and the extra money that we got in previous budgets, there is money that goes for testing, monitoring,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are many small communities in Canada that are on wells and cisterns as well. Not everybody has—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll always have to take whatever money we have and divide it among training of operators, inspection and monitoring, and building facilities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If we do get an agreement, we'll have the funds in place.