Thank you to the presenters today.
I want to ask a question about the investment in indigenous people that we've seen in the budget. We've seen some significant investments in the last while, and it's made a lot of people happy that we finally have the attention of a government to try to move forward.
I represent the north, and we have huge challenges. Our suicide rates in the north are 20 to 30 times the national average. Some 50% of all first nations children live below the poverty line. The unemployment rate is double the national average. There are so many stats we could point to.
We're starting to see a lot of money coming forward, but it's spread out over many departments. The bulk of the money is coming through the two indigenous departments, the former INAC department, but there are 34 departments across this government that have money earmarked for aboriginal people.
I want to know what the role of the Department of Finance is in terms of providing oversight. Who's actually in charge of making sure the money is going where it's supposed to be going in terms of allocation and all these different checks and balances that we expect to have in place?