Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'll just add another comment regarding a new approach—I wouldn't say trend—that some communities are trying. We are working, for instance, with Health Canada to try to get to comprehensive community planning, so the communities would put together their plans and the departments

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I think the Public Health Agency of Canada committed that we would follow up and have them provide that information to the committee.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  That's right. The community is coming to us and saying, “We want one plan. We want one report. You departments need to get together.” So I think there's a growing trend for that, and we're being responsive.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I don't know the number. There are multiple—

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It did fall off the radar. The committee did meet about a month or two months ago, and it's planning its next meeting. In between, the working group has been meeting to try to do this documentation of all of the programs and services we have as departments with interest in the is

Human Resources committee  I'm going to share with Allan. He's going to do a portion of the AANDC presentation.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Madam Chair and honourable members, we are pleased that your committee is studying the opportunities for aboriginal persons in the workforce and specifically the supports available to them through the Government of Canada. We're glad to have the opportunity to contrib

Human Resources committee  We've been working with first nations over the last number of years to get to active measures, and we've been building on successes they've used. In terms of the first nations job fund, what we identified through our work with first nations is a lack of access to skills training

Human Resources committee  We worked with them to identify their needs. Their needs were skills training and development. The ASETS program works well, so we're using the ASETS network to do that training with them.

Human Resources committee  I don't think the start date.... We actually solicited proposals in July. Proposals came in at the end of August. We have reviewed those proposals through the fall. We've identified 23 successful proponents twinned with ASETS service providers. We're in the process of finalizing

Human Resources committee  I can't speak to what the jobs fund has done in terms of notification.

Human Resources committee  Are you talking specifically about tax issues? I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about in terms of resolution issues.

Human Resources committee  We don't actually have responsibility at all for the LMAs and LMDAs. They are managed by provinces, and it would be through Employment and Social Development Canada, but if you have particular questions, we could endeavour to answer them afterwards.

Human Resources committee  Maybe it's the regional development agencies that you need to speak to, who often have tourism targeted as one of the investment areas they do, and they will do the work with enterprise in the private sector. It would be CanNor, and Western Economic Diversification, and so forth.

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to speak today. I would like to share some of the steps taken by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to improve first nations participation and benefits gained from mining projects. The federal crown has a fiduc