In the western part of my riding of Thunder Bay—Rainy River, we had a major problem with flooding in the spring and the summer of this year. It's the Winnipeg river system, so it includes Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake. A number of indigenous communities were affected, including Lac La Croix, Seine River and Couchiching.
I know Indigenous Services is responsible for emergency response and preparedness in those communities, but it would seem to me that a large part of the problem is the whole river system. You do something at one level of the river system and it potentially exacerbates the problem in another part of the river system.
Is Indigenous Services working with other branches of government, such as the ministry of the environment and the ministries of infrastructure and emergency preparedness? That is probably the most important one.
Are you working with them to create a more generalized response and to look at ways of mitigating the future risk of flooding? It affects both the indigenous and the non-indigenous communities.