Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee on May 4th, 2010

[Yvon Lévesque, Bloc, Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, QC]

Other committees that meet at the same time as us, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., are served a light meal. I think that is a very good idea. I am not necessarily asking for one on Tuesdays, but on Thursdays at least. After Thursday's meeting, almost all of us go back home, and we do not have enough time to eat before we leave. So we end up eating around 11 p.m. This kind of arrangement would be very helpful. Since the clerk is friends with the kitchen staff—

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

Is that agreeable? The last thing we would want to do is send you out on the road without something to eat.

Mr. Bagnell.

[Larry Bagnell, Liberal, Yukon, YT]

Just to make sure the report is on track, I want to confirm that the researcher is still waiting for a map from Health Canada with all the locations and the number of constituents, and a map from the Healing Foundation showing all the projects and a rough number of customers.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

As I understand it--and I'll defer to Tonina if there's any change--we weren't able to get that from the Healing Foundation. We have gone to the department to see if we can identify that in the form of a map.

Is that correct, as far as you know?

[Tonina Simeone, Committee Researcher]

On the Health Canada website there's a list of regional offices that would provide the program, but there's no map. I've asked Graeme to contact Health Canada to provide a map and confirm whether or not there are more regional offices than are listed on their website as delivering the IRSH program.

[Larry Bagnell, Liberal, Yukon, YT]

The Aborignal Healing Foundation said they were going to do a map for you of the 134 projects and 12 institutions across Canada, and the rough number of people who went into each one. They haven't done that yet, I assume.

[Tonina Simeone]

I'll let Graeme answer that.

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Graeme Truelove]

We haven't received it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

We still have some time here. We'll have instructions to the analyst on Thursday, then resume consideration for sure.

Mr. Russell.

[Todd Russell, Liberal, Labrador, NL]

I would ask our analysts if can we get a few scenarios from Health Canada. When a person requires help from Pangnirtung, what happens--or if they call from other communities? If we had a list of three or four communities, so if you're in a certain community.... Can you provide that?

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

Do you mean a scenario, in other words?

[Todd Russell, Liberal, Labrador, NL]

Say a person has a problem, so they dial 1-800. What happens? We can use some real-life communities, of course; they don't have to be fictional. Give us a sense of what Health Canada is presenting to people.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

Mr. Rickford.

[Greg Rickford, Conservative, Kenora, ON]

That's a great question. We'd like to find out what happens in the more than 450 communities that don't have aboriginal healing foundations.

[Todd Russell, Liberal, Labrador, NL]

We can probably ask Health Canada what happens to the 450 not covered by AHF.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bruce Stanton]

Before we go, thank you very much to our presenters this afternoon for their responses and presentations. They will certainly help inform our study.

Thank you, members, and have a safe drive home.

Meeting adjourned.