Thank you.
I want to go back to the first nations component in terms of insurance and protection from climate change events. When I started on council, we had no money. We were under the Indian Act. It was a catch-22. We didn't have firefighting capabilities. Due to the way the Indian Act is set up, it just would not fund us. However, that actually corresponded to high insurance rates or no insurance rates on reserve.
We've changed that now with LNG, forestry and mining revenues. We fully fund our own fire station. We have state-of-the-art equipment. We have all the training.
Can any of the witnesses tell me how many first nation communities or how many reserves across Canada are still under the Indian Act and don't have adequate firefighting capabilities?
