Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have that number, but we can certainly provide it to the committee.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that will come out in the inventory that's being done in collaboration with Public Safety. I must say that a couple of years ago we had inventoried this, and it was 100%, and the department had funded them. I'll add one thing. It's important that the emergency plan be drafted by the community, so that they are identifying risk.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't speak to why there was disarray, besides the fact that it was an oncoming emergency situation that occurred fairly quickly. Folks were put in the face of having to evacuate very quickly, exercising their emergency management plans. The Canadian Red Cross, which was in charge of the evacuations, is definitely doing a lessons learned event and trying to ensure that it builds on what occurred and how to resolve it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If you like, I could go jurisdiction by jurisdiction and tell you where we are.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would be more than pleased to do so.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and I greatly sympathize with those who are being evacuated because that's difficult. I recognize first responders as well trying to help people get out of harm's way and there are occasions when people get split up. That's a tragedy in itself at the personal and family level for sure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'll see if social media comes up in terms of the one-on-one meetings with each of the communities, etc. It sounds like it would be worthwhile to raise and address it, but I'm not absolutely sure that this will be a theme that emerges.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Are you asking in terms of barriers to working together, or interoperability, whether there are legislative barriers?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That would vary from region to region, but I don't see that there are any legal or policy barriers to that occurring, especially in areas where we have service agreements in place. The idea is to have those communities be interoperable with non-indigenous communities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think federal, provincial, and territorial ministers responsible for emergency management made a statement years ago that it was desirable to have these service agreements in place to clarify roles and responsibilities, so I think there's a recognition across the country that we need to have them.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry but I didn't hear the question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It depends on the jurisdiction. In Alberta, they work with the provincial government. They receive training from the provincial government and work on emergency plans that plug into those of the provincial government. In other places, like Manitoba, as I mentioned, the Canadian Red Cross works closely with the communities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Actually, in some cases the department is involved very closely. Again, it's jurisdiction by jurisdiction. In Quebec, because it's not something the provincial government does, our regional office has a very strong capacity. Our people work one-on-one with the communities at the departmental level to work on their emergency management plans, which by and large are very robust.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, but the advantage of the province providing it is that it will automatically be compatible with provincial standards.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The buck stops with Indigenous Services. We are there to make sure they have access to those services, and we do. It's just that it looks different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.