Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That would be an excellent question to ask the department. When we saw that there were bilateral agreements for Nunavut, the idea was that there was now a bilateral agreement that wasn't there before. These are a precursor to having CTAs. If you don't have those agreements, you can't go to a CTA.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The number 680 that came from us is public. I think there are 51 Inuit communities in Canada, based on publicly available information. As part of the audit, we looked at the communities that were receiving services under this program. A lot of Inuit communities are located in Nunavut, but not all of them.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the audit, we did not look at the new legislative framework in place, which is being amended to make policing an essential service, as you mentioned. We looked at the program as it currently stands. I want to make it clear that the new legislative framework will not, at this point, include community tripartite agreements involving the RCMP.