Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They would have to come in some future estimates.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They are not included. They reflect the $60-million budget, which he is taking issue with.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I think I'd better get on the record. I have been to the great Kenora riding.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think you've identified the triangle of how we would make progress. That is, first deal with the infrastructure, and second, make sure that there are operators who are trained to operate them well. This is a challenge in small municipalities in communities across the country. T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll come to that in one second.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, let me finish on the stores initiative. We will do what we can to help people be ready for the kind of relationship with shippers and suppliers that they do. The consultations that led up to the new program were about as exhaustive and extensive as any that have ever been

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You don't evaluate in the first year that a program is being implemented. You evaluate a couple of years after.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do. We do have an evaluation—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We got extra funding as a result of the stimulus package, which drops out, but the program is still there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The funding that was announced in last year's budget, the 2011 budget, was the funding that allowed the 18 first nations to come in. So that accounted for that. If we have the happy problem of a lineup of 40 or 50 first nations that want to come in, we will have to do the math a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That refers to a very specific item. As you know, the shift from the old food mail to the new Nutrition North is a fairly big one. We're moving from subsidizing the transport to subsidizing the retailer. We knew there would be issues in some parts of the retail chain with making

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it has all gone to the lands advisory board for their role in helping first nations get FNLMA ready, or it has gone into operating funding to the participant first nations. We've done it with the existing staff.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the original funding formula, which predates me, was created when people hadn't had a lot of working experience with the regime. It was very much tied to the volume of land transactions. If you were going to have a lot of transactions, you would get more funding, and it k

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can give you my understanding of it, and I certainly do stand to be corrected. The commission was set up as a separate federal department. It has its own vote structure and its own reporting to Parliament. It has an RPP. It has a performance report. Some of you will remember t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My information is that $106 million for the federal contaminated sites action plan was added in supplementary estimates (B). I will verify that for you and get you a financial—