Ms. Lyse Langevin (Director General, Community Infrastructure Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

I'll take that question. Thank you very much.

First nations manage fire protection services on reserve. They're responsible for making their specific decisions and their funding decisions under the annual core funding that INAC provides to them. Having said that, we work closely with the Aboriginal Firefighters Association of Canada who put a report out a few years ago identifying key measures that could be done to improve fire protection on reserves. One of them is the implementation of an indigenous fire marshal. We are working toward doing that to help improve the situation of fire protection on reserves.