Natural Resources committee  In terms of the Ring of Fire and the nine Matawa communities, through our strategic partnerships initiative we have been working collectively with Health Canada and the Province of Ontario to try to get the nine Matawa communities to sign on to a new whole-of-government approach

Natural Resources committee  There's certainly, along with our department, which has funding for economic development to look at opportunities for communities to take advantage of development, also Employment and Social Development Canada. They have their ASETS program and their strategic partnership fund, w

Natural Resources committee  I'd just like to jump in here. I didn't want to leave the impression that we're not working with the provinces. When we look at community capacity development, definitely, as Mr. Rae has said, in the area of the Ring of Fire, the project that we're doing there has Ontario at the

Status of Women committee  Good morning. Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to provide an overview of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's programming that supports indigenous women entrepreneurs and businesses. Before I begin, I'd like to recognize that we're on the traditional territory of

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, and good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to provide an overview of the procurement strategy for aboriginal business, which is managed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. I have provided a short deck that cont

Government Operations committee  We have certainly all of the reports we've had through the procurement strategy, our annual reports, and we are going to be looking at what OSME has, as well. Certainly we have our databases and the ISED databases that we can look at, but I think a good portion of what we need

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  We do have data in our database. We have data from the research the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has done as well.

Government Operations committee  We have the ISED database. We can look at procurement and what has happened through the statistics that we collect. We do that data analysis on an ongoing basis, and through that we've noticed that we have challenges in terms of larger companies participating in the procurement s

Government Operations committee  We're still looking at that. I think we'll continue to look at that, and then we will launch into the engagement phase as well. The statistical review is giving us some line of sight of the types of questions we want to put in the survey, so based on the performance through the

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  It's self-identification, so we're not in there measuring and saying who's Métis and who's not Métis. People self-identify. We look at that, and we accept that as self-identification. We're not asking for status cards and those other things. I mean, we will do an audit and look

Government Operations committee  I don't think we've done an analysis within the PSAB data of businesses, and Mohan can correct me if I'm wrong. We do gender-based analysis on aboriginal businesses at large, and how they compare with the broader workforce and business workforce. We know that the number of wome

Government Operations committee  If those numbers were established when PSAB was established, I think, as part of the modernization review, we need to be asking ourselves and asking businesses the question in and around—