Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's interfering with a complete agreement with them, but we are not holding up other forms of funding that are available to all B.C. first nations.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Minister. I'll try to be very short about it. We are providing documents as they are ready, in batches. Our undertaking to the commission is no later than next July, and we've offered many mechanisms for them to come over with researcher status a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. Every document we turn over to them is digitized and tagged in a way that is conducive to search. I don't know if the churches are doing the same, but every federal document goes over digitized and tagged for searchability. The question before the court is of the relevant sc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know specifically what they require, but the RCMP detachments were involved in the removal of children from communities to take them to schools, so the commission certainly feels that it's relevant to get access to the records from that period that come up through the RCM

Government Operations committee  Okay. Well, I'm not familiar with that, but I do know we are trying very hard to move along the treaty land entitlements in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It is a tough process because we're talking about provincial crown lands, third party interests in the land, and a lot of lawyers

Government Operations committee  I will get back to you on that as soon as humanly possible, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is the third parliamentary committee in five days, so....

Government Operations committee  I thank you for the question. If it's of interest, we can try to follow up on how the high-level architecture flows through. A quick version is that those relationships flow through all kinds of arrangements. We're in a funding relationship for various purposes with I think 45

Government Operations committee  —and that's just first nations alone. We also have relationships with Métis and Inuit organizations.

Government Operations committee  You've caught me, Mr. Chair. You know more about this one than I do. I would be happy to provide a written response. We're working with National Defence, Canada Lands, and the treaty group to try to move this along. I don't have those details in front of me.

Government Operations committee  I think there are other tools—this is my personal view, having been a deputy for six years—and sunsetting isn't the best way to get people to look at programs, question their assumptions, and reconsider them. We audit every single auditable unit in the department. We evaluate e

Government Operations committee  It's a good question, but it's a bit of a policy question. The way it's set up now is that there are royalties that flow from the mining activity, some of which go to the territorial governments and some of which go to aboriginal governments. These are important revenue sources f

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure.... I think the issue of cost recovery from the mining companies is a policy issue that's under consideration and that keeps coming up. That's not the regime we're operating under right now, but.... The basic administration of the scheme is provided through these app

Government Operations committee  It's an excellent question. I've had it before. We're organized in vertical accountabilities. The minister is answerable and I am answerable for the funds that Parliament flows through my department and my programs, as are my colleague Daniel and all of my other deputy minister

Government Operations committee  It will involve 480 positions. After the budget, we gave letters to 742 employees to inform them that they will be affected and we spent the spring and summer implementing those internal measures. We have not finished yet. Actually, we are about 80% finished. We have looked for p