Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are around 100 throughout the north.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We maintain the responsibility for sites created before the devolution.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We manage every project as intensively as we can with the first nations who are doing the building. What we're trying to encourage, but not force, is as much as possible standardized design, using the same blueprints more than once, bundled projects. If we can do four projects in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not familiar with the status of that specific agreement. We'll provide it in writing to the clerk, if that's acceptable.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. It is new money to the department, but we don't need to ask Parliament for a full appropriation of it because we got an advance from Treasury Board. So we don't need to ask you to vote the appropriation, but it is net new money for that purpose.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For that purpose, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You only pay as the projects are proceeding. The projects are built by the first nation. They do the contracting, they do the building, and we reimburse them in progress payments as things start. Each project has its own little project management challenge. Sometimes it's a slowd

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let me see if I can just correct something. You will see it in the main estimates for the next year, because we shifted the program around, as the minister said, in November. There will be more money going into prevention and planning and exercising—and hopefully less, in future

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. It's recovery and rebuilding. It's reimbursing the department for money that we put out to help the communities last year.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That has been responded to, and you will see that in the main estimates for 2014-15.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For which, sorry...? The $19 million is reallocated—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Pam will help me on this, but in some cases we have an authority, which is sort of a ceiling, for a whole bunch of programs. If we don't need all of the money in a given year, then we don't have to come to Parliament for a particular top-up.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In vote 10, of almost $6 billion, there is some slippage across about 50 different programs, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Some members of this committee will remember that when the bill went through we had to provide our best forecast of how many people would apply and at what pace they would come in. We were expecting, based on our sort of demographic analysis—the best we could do—about 45,000 appl