Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Looking at the pages before us, 134 and 135, and doing a bit of math here -- and my math is always subject to correction, Mr. Chairman -- I come up with a total commitment here between ourselves and the federal government of $2.65 million. That's a lot of money on these two pages: $2.65 million dollars, and $1.43 million of that is ours; $1.22 million is the federal government. So some of this, Mr. Chairman, has got relatively specific assignment. There's $225,000 identified to the Metis Nation. That's quite specific. There's $100,000 identified for the Dene Nation. That's quite specific. There are, let's see, one, two, three, four, five other sort of categories, if you will, or specific lines identified here. It's these five that I guess I find most concerning, Mr. Chairman, because they are so wide and open in their scope. There is little for me to hang onto here in terms of accountability, seeing what the expectations are, knowing what, you know, if we're going to commit some taxpayers' money what then can we expect will be the value that we will get out of it.

Mr. Chairman, I am fully in support of this government, the territorial government, lending reasonable financial support to aboriginal governments. That is not at issue. It is that we have identified, as I say, at least on these two pages by my assessment, five different pots of money, all of them really, as I say, very wide in scope with very little specific tangible criteria on them. So if I have an ask here, it is can the Minister take a really hard look at these allocations and, over the course of the fiscal year, see if they can be amalgamated, or streamlined, or put into a form that is going to allow for more accountability and more certainty of what the value will be when these dollars are allocated to the aboriginal organizations? As I say, between these two pages here, there is $2.6 million. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that we see some more shape and form attached to these expenditures, Mr. Chairman.