Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On the urban aboriginal strategy, I think that was simply some slippage in getting cabinet approvals and getting it rolled out. Again, those moneys will be spent later.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What $20 million?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, no, that money will be appropriated to the coast guard through another committee on another vote.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry, do you have the line item?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Are you referring to the supplementaries, or the main estimates, Mr. Bruinooge?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have that at my fingertips. We will be back here in April or May with the main estimates. There's about $6.3 billion in the departmental budget, plus whatever we'll be adding because of the recent federal budget, which will add some spending on water, child and family ser

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We fund a variety of representative organizations, I guess is the title. There are several national ones you are familiar with. There is also a series of provincial and regional ones. There are specialized ones such as the Inuit Women's Association and so on. There are about

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are parts of the minister's responsibilities, and therefore mine, that have to do with the old Indian Act, such as the management of moneys, trusts, estates, the registry, and the status cards, which we had some questions on last time. I'm sure the bulk of that money is acc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Off the top of my head, I think it was about $8 million for matrimonial real property consultations, give or take. I'll get you an accounting for that. That was to deliver both the work of the minister's representative and to do a number of regional and community consultations ov

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not going to comment on budget setting and relative priorities. I'd be happy to try to explain the methodologies. Parliament will give us about $1 billion for community infrastructure. That goes to housing, education, other community uses, water, and services. We try to use

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right. If you go back to the Prime Minister's announcement from last June, it's a four-part strategy, the centrepiece being the tribunal, which is in Bill C-30, which is before this committee. If the tribunal comes into effect, we will also be doing the other parts, which

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My understanding is that the mapping exercise has already started, and what this basically does is accelerate it. You can pay for more ship travel, more time, and you can simply be more active, especially in the summer season when the water is open and you can do the maps.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My understanding--and again I'd have to defer to colleagues from Natural Resources Canada--is that it will be enough money to finish the mapping required to file the submissions under the UNCLOS process in time--there is a 2013 deadline--and then the lawyers take over.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's the food mail program.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We write Canada Post a cheque to do the food mail program. That's what that is.