Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The appropriations are what they are. It's $6.3 billion in the main estimates; here's another—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll end the year just under $7 billion, I would think—$6.7 billion or $6.8 billion. There will probably be another round of supplementary estimates in the spring. One of the biggest variables—we've had this exchange before—depends on when some of the settlements kick in. If w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't comment on the past. What we're trying to do now is pay more attention to milestones and the implementation parts of agreements. We are doing audits; we're doing evaluations. We're trying to make sure there's a 100% audit coverage within the department of all of our activ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think there's a difference of opinion about when you are done. I think the auditors tend to develop a mentality that there is some end point, whereas what you've done when you've signed a treaty or an agreement is you've moved to a new relationship with those people. You have a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would vary from treaty to treaty depending on the issues. We have an implementation group that does nothing but track the existing treaties and the implementation plans that are associated with them.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, of course, and some of the issues will have to do with the resources that go into the structures created by the agreement. Most of these treaties and agreements create water boards, management boards, land management boards, and so on, which become part of the permanent stru

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The biggest one, I believe, is Nunavik, as the minister mentioned. And there are a couple of--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll try a couple of those, but I may have to get back to you on a couple of them. I'd ask you to indulge me, Mr. Chair, on one answer, because I think it anticipates several questions, and that is on the question of the capital budget. We have a pot of money for capital. We d

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's no question that we don't fund every school the same amount per student. I'm not sure we should, because their needs will be different. You know, if you're in the suburbs of Vancouver or if you're in the northeast corner of the province....there is a lot of methodology ab

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't believe it's in this round. I think it would be in the main estimates.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. There are implementation plans associated with all of the agreements, and in some cases there are detailed implementation chapters in the actual agreement. It would depend on how old it is. James Bay is from the 1970s and doesn't have an implementation chapter. The Nunavik ag

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wouldn't use the word “divert”.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What you have is a list system of projects, some of which are in early stages, some are almost ready to tender, and some have actually been tendered.