Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. As you'll be aware, given that you are appropriating about $5 billion in grants and contributions, we do a lot of contribution agreements with recipients. They each have boiler-plate language as well as the specific purposes for the money. We discove

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for this question. I don't want to be facetious, but I've never heard “specific claims” and “hurry” in the same sentence. Part of the problem is that the process has been so excruciatingly slow--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll do my best. Thank you for the question. This is an area where we play a coordinating role with other departments. A lot of the delivery is done by them, and I may have to get some follow-up information for you. The mapping will be done by Natural Resources Canada and coast

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry, you have a sharper eye than I do, Mr. Bruinooge. There's a reprofiling amount on Nunavik, which is under the northern Quebec agreement. Because of the delays in the legislation, we'll be moving money into next fiscal year and spending it in 2008-09. I think that's what

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we're getting Nunavut and Nunavik crossed. Nunavik is the northern Quebec agreement. Nunavut is in the estimates. That's the $2.4 million that's going to the regulatory bodies in the Nunavut territory. There's nothing about Nunavik in these estimates that I can recall.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If we get them in written form, we'll provide answers, and we're quite happy to come back on any issue that you feel deserves further exploration.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll work with the committee clerk to sort out--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I want to give Dr. Harrison a chance to talk about the preparations on residential schools.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The reallocation comes from the expenditure review cuts made in the 2005 budget, and there was some compression on the economic development program. We did take some money out of that budget and now we're in the process of trying to rebuild from here. The advice from the board t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Best practices would be--and correct me if I'm wrong on this, Jim--the nations that have gone through the First Nations Land Management Act and assumed control of land management on their reserves. They've basically left the Indian Act and moved into a regime where they do land m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there are a whole bunch of statutory responsibilities on the minister and on me that basically flow from the Indian Act, and if you haven't moved out of the Indian Act through self-government or through some of these other legislative instruments, then it's the Indian Act re

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure how to tackle that one. I mean, there's a legitimate concern by parliamentarians in value for money for the dollars that flow into the communities through contribution agreements, but it also has to be balanced by the local jurisdiction and accountability for what th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The contaminated sites program was conceived around environmental hazards such as mine sites, toxic waste, and all that sort of thing. To the best of my knowledge, it didn't contemplate these kinds of issues. That would be DND, who created the mess, to clean it up. We've certainl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's the first time I've actually been asked a question about a line item in the supplementary estimates for some time, Ms. Crowder. In reverse order, I'll get back to you on that. That was basically to do a post-census survey. When we do the survey 2006-2011, Statistics Canada

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a reduced requirement, to ask Parliament for appropriation, because we found another way to keep the cash moving.