Information & Ethics committee  In the end, I did not brief members of the Prime Minister's Office or the Deputy Prime Minister's Office on the WE proposal. In terms of their relationship, I think the WE organization has a number of relationships with figures across the country, including political staff. No,

Information & Ethics committee  WE Charity gave me a call to tell me they had proposals with respect to a youth entrepreneurship program as well as a service program. It was a fairly brief conversation. They indicated that given my role as the former DM of youth, they were curious to see if I had any time to lo

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I won't take up the seven minutes, but I will deliver a few opening remarks. I'll start in French and go into English. Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members for inviting me to appear before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. I think there has been some investment in the past around emergency management and around how we can support communities, but beyond that, the department is looking at enhancing those emergency response funding agreements that we have with communities across the count

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. The annual budget actually went from $64.9 million.... Since budget 2019, there's actually new funding that brings the funding to $211 million. There are investments being made and concrete steps being taken to encourage that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Dr. Wong.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will ask Ms. Gideon to answer that question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start, and then I'll turn it over to Mary Kapelus. She has been doing a lot of work in this area. I think, as the minister noted, you're absolutely correct—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry. As the minister noted in terms of urban and off reserve.... The first thing I would note is that when we did our initial tranche of $15 million, we received a number of applications. That was kind of based on friendship centres and other organizations. As you note, it

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Regarding guidelines, we have worked closely with Health Canada, not only to protect indigenous communities, indigenous elders, but also to ensure that it is done in a culturally appropriate, culturally sensitive way. We have tried to include the pers

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I would say yes. We work with communities to ensure that they have the personal protective equipment necessary to support their work, so that they can work in healthy conditions, protect themselves and protect patients. To do this, we have deployed 1

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start, and then I'll turn it over to Dr. Wong. Obviously, we are paying very close attention to what's happening with the rise in cases. I think that the nimbleness and the outreach that was done at the early onset of COVID and the constant communications with communities

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Is that better? Okay, thank you. I'll turn it over to Dr. Wong to talk a little more about the state of affairs in Atlantic Canada.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I appreciate the question. It is in fact Indigenous Services Canada. I guess I would start off by saying that we want to work, obviously, in lockstep with first nations government to support transparency and accountability. This is very much the approach the department has taken

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll turn it over to Val very quickly to answer that one.