Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of indigenous-led post-secondary institutions, right now we tend to have a lot of our programming based on a program of the institution itself, whether it's an economic development, business or nursing program. I think what we're hearing from post-secondary institutions

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, definitely. I think that $6-billion investment is really meant to be for schools, for health infrastructure and for other types of facilities. In some cases, we're seeing creative approaches to multi-purpose buildings. You may have your indigenous early learning and child c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm happy to take that. Thank you for the question. What I would say is that for our regional executives across the country we do have a footprint across the country at Indigenous Services Canada. They are really meant to be that single window, where they work with communities o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would make maybe two comments. On the indigenous housing institution, this is definitely something we're looking into. It's been proposed by the national housing council as an idea to address remote, urban and northern housing challenges. As we look at transferring service, a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the question. To answer specifically about the $6 billion, up to now, we have invested $1 billion in projects in Quebec. That means more than 200 new units and more than 1,000 renovations. It also includes utilities and water. So we are continuing t

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely, and I personally visited some of our nursing stations and saw that very equipment, where you have an emergency room within the nursing station and there will be a 24-7 unit connected to a major hospital so that outreach to a physician to support the nursing staff on t

Public Accounts committee  It's something that definitely keeps me up at night. We have formal processes and systems in place with employee assistance and a dedicated support service exclusively for our nursing staff, which is not common to all of our employees across the system and which I think is import

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Chair.

Public Accounts committee  We've spent $51 million to date, just for your awareness. I just saw that detail in my notes. I'll turn it over to Robin Buckland to speak to the contracting process.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we do. We obviously have to work within our collective bargaining agreement, but these are challenging positions and, in terms of incentivizing our nursing staff and helping in the recruitment, we do provide some incentives. We can provide the committee with a bit more detai

Public Accounts committee  We do a bit of both. We were providing specific amounts based on population. There were two funding streams. There was the public health stream and there was the stream encompassing food safety and perimeter security for the community. By using those two streams, we provided dire

Public Accounts committee  Are those figures global or do they concern only health? I am not 100%—

Public Accounts committee  I think it may also come from different funding sources. I will have to check that. There are different ways to do things. Some funding is provided to communities based on programs. Some communities have had a 10‑year agreement and they are receiving a more long-term funding blo

Public Accounts committee  Funding comes from us, but there is also funding that would come from other departments. For example, housing funding may come from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Public Accounts committee  Northern Manitoba and Ontario were probably our most challenged communities in terms of the outbreak. Not only would they have received more PPE as a result of.... There were communities like Norway House, Shamattawa or Red Sucker Lake that seemed to be in a continuous mode of ou