Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Obviously we would not be able to speak to what has happened since 2009 until we've done a follow-up audit. We don't have it on our plans exactly when we're going to do our next follow-up, but certainly every second year we do follow-up audits on various issues, so this would be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Just to clarify a little bit, we observed that in fact there are these impact benefit agreements in the mining area as well, but as the Auditor General has mentioned, there aren't specific criteria as to what INAC is legally obligated to do with those. There's no program. Th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Basically, in looking at the economic development programs, we saw that in fact they weren't set up such that they could be evaluated. When we tried to assess what progress had been done, there'd been some money spent, some activities have happened, but in terms of assessing prog

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, certainly. I would say, first of all, with respect to HRSDC's programs, that we did see that they had established objectives, and they were measuring short-term progress towards achieving those objectives. What they weren't doing was seeing what overall impact they were hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Maybe I'll first just say a word of clarification. Yes, we always do meet with first nations. We don't take a representative sample and reach our audit conclusions; it's really the context. For this follow-up audit specifically, we visited, I believe, four first nations in Saskat

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have not seen it. That would be a question to put to the department.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just to clarify, on the economic benefits, part of the agreement for the Inuvialuit Final Agreement itself was that after five years there be a devaluation of the economic benefits of that agreement. We found in the audit that the first one was done and the second one had not bee

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The program evaluation at the end, the conclusion of our audit, had not been done.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. I will just make a couple of clarifications. In the 2009 audit, there are two important points. One, on the keeping of records, we found there were some significant problems, particularly in the Manitoba office; but we also noted that they

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They are putting in place, and have committed to having in place by April 2009, a new data management system that would capture system information from across the country. It would actually capture all of the information needed on additions to reserves in a consistent fashion. W

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would perhaps want to clarify that, if I may. For that reason, we only looked at conversions that have completed the process. From those ones, we only looked back to the beginning of phase two. So when we said that the average was seven years, it was that limited amount. There

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say no. In 2009, the main focus was to consider the progress that has been made toward specific recommendations. We also tracked other things. But there was a lot of explanation and background and description in the 2005 report that we didn't think was necessary to repeat

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd be glad to, Mr. Chair. Maybe it's worth clarifying one point in particular. Referring to the time it's taking to convert, when we looked at the Manitoba agreements from year one and how the average went, we focused specifically on phase two and phase three of the agreements.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would simply comment, Mr. Chair, that when we began the audit, we were aware that the department was beginning an evaluation of the Inuit programs and the Inuit land claims and northern work. The plan in doing the audit was to be monitoring progress on that. At the end of the a