Thank you, Madam Chair. I am just going to ask about the net fiscal benefit transfer to the Aboriginal parties. I'm probably duplicating maybe some of what my colleague was asking around the Heritage Fund, but my understanding is based on percentages of royalties that are earned from the mineral resources sector. Understandably, this is why 2019-2020 is quite a bit lower, but then, again, like everywhere else, we come back to pre-COVID estimations again. I think it's really optimistic to think that we are going to be getting the same type of royalties that we were getting pre-COVID going forward. I get the reluctance to not want to adjust budgets. However, this is a payment out to Indigenous organizations that we are now putting in the budget and putting an amount in. Maybe this is something that's always problematic, but then it states to me that we are sort of making a promise of a payment that potentially we are not going to be able to fulfill. I get that everybody understands it's based on fluctuating royalties and revenues. However, again, this is an area where I do not see why we would not have been more realistic in our budgeting. Maybe the Minister can speak to that? Thank you.
Katrina Nokleby on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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