Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It certainly can be.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I think we're putting it out roughly quarterly and we're making it available to the advisory committee on the program. The other variable...and it's not just population, it's which commodity you want to subsidize by how much per kilo. You can also adjust it by community. Yo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Could you point out which page or line you're referring to? It would be easier.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're trying to find the right page. It's a shift in the profile of contaminated sites projects. As you know, we have a portfolio of projects and they move from fiscal year to fiscal year. It's just a change in the work plan associated with remediation.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've got increased resources.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we move them from year to year. The projects are on various timelines and money gets paid out as work is done. If it's not entirely needed in one year, we spend it the following year, and it's an accounting for the fiscal year.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The bulk of it would be the actual remediation, which is usually done by third party contractors, and there's a small staff complement, as you know, that supervises the projects.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We probably can provide that breakdown. At this level of aggregation that Treasury Board provides, it's rolled up at a pretty high level. We do have a staff complement, as you know, that does supervise the projects.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Last year's budget injected about $700 million over three years into the department, and the minister set out some of those new investments. It also took our reductions under the deficit reduction action plan. The breakdown of where those reductions a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, the answer to many questions is the mains are a snapshot before the next federal budget. The program budget will depend on some decisions we look forward to in the next budget.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As you know, the program has shifted to subsidizing the retailers. We have much deeper, richer, broader data because there is point of sale information from cash registers. This is the 21st century now, so we can get from the electronic cash register very precise information on w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can clarify all of that in a written response. I will say that we have invested the resources needed to increase the number of participating communities. As you know, we added 18 communities a year ago and another eight or nine recently. Resources are in place to implement thi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If it is helpful, Mr. Chairman, we posted on the website, as most departments did, all of the financial information.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we would have to follow up in writing, Mr. Chair. Sometimes they are renovations—expanding a gym, making sure the washrooms are retrofitted in a building that's acquired, generally making the building serviceable—and sometimes they are new build projects. We have more t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can get you something in writing on that. We are flowing money to all B.C. first nations as part of our recent agreement with them. The disagreement we have with some of the first nations about the self-government funding is not interfering with that.