Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm going to repeat my answer, Mr. Saganash, with all due respect, and say that we are respecting the tribunal. I think there are issues we have to acknowledge in terms of what actually the tribunal will come out with in terms of jurisdictional responsibilities as one of many iss

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm going to ask my colleague, Chris Rainer, to respond.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it does not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Each first nation has its own dynamics, and therefore their needs will be different. There's not what I would call a general kind of—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not so sure. Just to provide a bit more information for you, Ms. McLeod, we provide 80% of the funding to first nations in the form of loans. Vote L20 is part of that. Another 12% is in the form of contributions. The B.C. government provides 8% of the funding also in the for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I just found it. I'm sorry. Timing is everything. As I mentioned earlier, in terms of loans to first nations in B.C., we have paid out $538.7 million, and $18.2 million of that is for groups that have settled. They are being repaid according to a concluded agreed schedule of re

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That level of detail I can get back to you on in a written response, if you don't mind.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I can't necessarily provide a direct answer to your question, only because the minister has been very clear that this has to be co-developed in terms of reform with first nations and provinces and territories, so we need time to work that reform stra

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It's a timing issue, and program reform—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct. We expect all the evacuees from those first nations to be back in during the following fiscal year. They need to have a community and an infrastructure base to move back to, right?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have that number. You'll have to forgive me; it's somewhere in my notes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can get back to you, if you wouldn't mind. I apologize for that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As part of the B.C. treaty process, when we get to a settlement stage we take into account the loans that are outstanding at that time. We ensure that this is part of the calculus of the settlement and they get repaid as part of the settlement process. That's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct. My colleague has just helped me out here. Since 1993 the BC Treaty Commission has allocated approximately $675 million in negotiation support funding. That's about $519 million in loans and $156 million in contributions to date. One of the things I do as the chi