Transport committee  Yes, first nations are eligible for the gas tax fund, although it flows through Indigenous Services Canada, through the first nation infrastructure fund.

Transport committee  Since 2014, through 2018, there has been $139 million allocated to 255 reserves through the gas tax fund.

Transport committee  With the creation of a minister of rural economic development, housed within Infrastructure Canada we have some temporary funding to set up the secretariat for two years to support that office in looking at the ongoing management of the way we support rural investment over time.