Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have visibility on those—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My personal view, what I believe, is that we all share the objective—the department, the minister and the tribunal. It's all about kids first, as the minister has said. It is trying to ensure that there is a sufficient amount of money to deal with the immediate needs, and that th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would agree with you that one of the challenges we have at INAC is the complexity of the reporting of government budgetary cycles and the public accounts to indigenous peoples for their understanding of the monies that Parliament is voting on, and how those are transformed. I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. This one is really popular. You mentioned our track record of lapsing. One must understand that the lapse usually is primarily made up of a couple of amounts. Those are specific claims envelopes, comprehensive claims envelopes, or items related to r

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From our standpoint, the tribunal has called for immediate funding relief based on need, expansion of Jordan's principle, and reform of the child welfare system. Beyond the statement you quoted from that official, $200 million of additional funding has been made available to impl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe the minister has made it abundantly clear, at this committee and at other places, that it's about kids first and then about sorting out later the administration aspects at the jurisdictional level between the province and the federal government. That's why we've gone fr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't comment on different bodies' interpretations. All I can comment on are track records since this program has come into place, on what we've accomplished that we continue to move forward on. I believe the number of service requests that we have done from a zero start base,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I understand the question and the issue. I can tell you that we are improving our communications and our reporting processes, particularly in light of the investments from budget 2016-17. One example is that of the infrastructure space which all citizens will be able to access on

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Ms. McLeod, for the question. As part of the new fiscal relationship that this government is committed to, one of the pillars of the negotiations or conversations we're having is actually defining that mutual accountability for first nations at the community level amo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Saganash. We do respect the decisions of the tribunal. I think what the minister has said is that we have gone beyond already what the tribunal has actually requested to date.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our commitment is to the Inuit land claim holders.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Out of the $10.8 billion, approximately $950 million is for vote 1. Vote 1 is to be used for about $300-odd million to deal with legal obligations that we have related to residential schools and legal obligations on contaminated sites. The actual amount for the operations of the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's out of that $10.8 billion.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That funding agreement.... We make the funding agreement. It's signed with chief and council, and we do hope that the funding agreement is made available to the community members. That is a document that I believe, in terms of that, we put...that's a public... That should be publ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do hope that the governance and accountability between chief and council and their community members will permit that, obviously, to happen first. We want to respect the governance of a community in terms of that happening, and if not, they have recourse to INAC in order to mak