For all three.
Evidence of meeting #9 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was funding.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #9 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was funding.
A video is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau
We're going to be tight on time. If anybody wants to jump in amongst the witnesses, go ahead please.
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Candace Bennett Executive Director, First Nations Housing Professionals Association
Mr. Chair, it's Candace Bennett speaking.
I was unable to hear the question, but we would definitely like to respond. I would suggest that an email be sent to me with that question, as well as any outstanding questions that the committee may have, given the shortness of time.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau
That's a very good suggestion, Ms. Bennett. We'll follow through on that.
Ms. Idlout, could you direct your question to one person so we can get one last answer?
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NDP
Lori Idlout NDP Nunavut, NU
I will direct it to Ms. Pfoh.
Minister Hajdu was saying that indigenous housing is dependent on indigenous capacity. What are the capacity development needs that should be a priority?
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Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Housing Management Association
I can only start by giving you an example and I'll be very brief about it.
Here in British Columbia we've seen a number of communities where there are no indigenous organizations to take the leadership and to deliver the programs. What we recommended is that there be partnerships. There are essential partnerships that need to be created if you're going to deliver targeted funding for targeted indigenous communities where there is not a capacity but there is perhaps another entity that does have that capacity so that there is mandated consultation and inclusion of indigenous at the table as the program starts to get rolled out.
We've seen it fail. Again, I'll reference the Goodacre report. It's not about blaming. It's not about pointing the finger, and it's not about accusations. It's about acknowledging that again anything for indigenous must be led by indigenous. If we don't have the capacity, then we need to work with indigenous people to help them gain that capacity and to ensure cultural and trauma-informed safety is always at the forefront of any programming. I'm happy to expand on that.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau
Thank you, Ms. Idlout.
If members of the committee have questions they want to direct to our witnesses today, please feel free to do so by email.
I would like to thank Ms. Pfoh, Mayor Kenny Bell, Ms. Harper and Ms. Bennett for coming today with their very strong and, may I say, very candid testimony. It's very much appreciated by all of the committee members. Thank you very much for joining us today.
With that, the panel's time is up.
As a reminder to the committee members, we'll be hearing from the three cabinet ministers related to this portfolio for main and supplementary estimates on Friday. Also, as another reminder, please get your witness lists in by April 1 for the next study, following the housing study, which will be on the [Technical difficulty—Editor], so by April 1, please.
Thank you, again, everyone. We'll see you on Friday.
With that, this meeting is adjourned.