Status of Women committee  Thanks for the question. Unfortunately, I return to the issue that there are many complexities.

Status of Women committee  There are some resources. I don't think there are enough, whether on the housing side.... Especially in the off-reserve setting, I think there is more work to be done. Although some investment has happened over the last number of years, I think we may just be shaving off the tip

Status of Women committee  Maybe it's best that I return to your original question about how we do better. That's a really key question. I think a lot more effort has to be put in by governments, federal and provincial, on the coordination of services and on investing in organizations to provide a human c

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  There's not a service like it that exists. It's a way to refer people to programs and services that are out there.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I don't have specific numbers of those seeking housing, but a great majority of them come to friendship centres because in some areas they provide housing or they know where it's provided, and they act as a navigator for people in urban centres. So, yes, they come for

Status of Women committee  All the time. What I tried to get to in my comments, though probably a little more generally, is that people who live on reserve, whether facing issues of matrimonial real property or not, come to urban centres and ask where they do these things and how the city works. It's like

Status of Women committee  The reasons make a pretty long list, but we'll try to put some of it in plain speak. People have been migrating to cities from rural areas and reserves at a fairly rapid pace for the better part of 50 or 60 years. This is not a trend unique to Canada. It's happening around the

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'll try to be as succinct and brief as I can so that everyone gets their time. Colleagues on the video conference, Madam Chair, distinguished members of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, thank you for the opportunity to present on what we consider to be

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree with you that celebrations are nice. They're perhaps galvanizing. People get focused on a date, and they're galvanized towards it. That plays an important role in celebrating Canada. As a legacy project, I would say we need to invest in aboriginal people. The question is,

Canadian Heritage committee  I didn't participate in the Vancouver Olympics, so I won't comment on that side, but in terms of structure, we need to find a way to have a very strong and vocal aboriginal participation in the 150th. I don't know what that looks like structurally. I know it would be a group of

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's a fantastic idea. I'm a product of an exchange program myself. I spent a year and a half in India, and I think it's a fantastic learning opportunity. Within Canada itself, of course, it opens up a whole bunch of possibilities to take, for example, urban aboriginal

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that's a fantastic idea. I think collaborating among national aboriginal organizations, to sit down and collaborate together, bringing expertise from different first nations and Métis education institutions.... There are some areas in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, I know, w

Canadian Heritage committee  I wholeheartedly agree with you. It's a great statement in terms of exactly where we would need to go. There's of course a truth and reconciliation commission working right now in the country dealing with residential schools and specific aspects of that. But reconciliation, in my

Canadian Heritage committee  The first thing is to adapt curriculum. That seems to be the obvious choice, working with provincial governments, of course, to adapt educational curricula to include the history of the different aboriginal peoples in the country and exactly how Canada was formed, including Métis