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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee As I previously mentioned, our submission that we prepared for today is almost looking at emergency management reform due to the fact that of our 49 first nations, 33 are remote, meaning they have only fly-in access year-round. We have a window of about one to two months when we have winter road access, during January, February and March, depending on the season and depending on how cold the weather is, when they can bring in deliveries of fuel for the year—diesel.
June 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Sure. Thank you, Grand Chief. I think within the current emergency management system, especially with our communities—there are 49 first nations in NAN, 33 of which are remote—a lot of times, an emergency event lands on the chief and council. Everything lands on the chief and council—emergencies and any sorts of phone calls.
June 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Did you want us to expand on the challenges, barriers and issues within our communities?
June 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, I agree that it would be beneficial. The other thing that pertains to that is the establishment of funding that is needs-based instead of one that's formula-based. That's one thing we've flagged in this process. The formula hasn't changed in I don't know how many years. The training that's part of their operation and maintenance funding is still at $20 a head.
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee One thing we did recommend was to explore the development of a trilateral process to provide equitable fire protection and prevention services in our communities. There are a lot of things we need to look at, like I was talking about with that funding. One of our main goals of the campaign was to provide smoke detectors.
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, and inventory of that. We were told that our communities, our fire departments, should be able to do that. My question was, what fire departments?
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Michael McKay
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you, Grand Chief. Thank you to the committee for this opportunity today. I'll just speak a little bit on the Amber's Fire Safety Campaign. We have four pillars in the campaign: education, training, partnerships, and capacity building. With the education piece, we've been working with our partners, for example Fire Chief John Hay, to deliver these fire prevention activities in our first nations.
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Michael McKay