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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The main estimates identified that the residential schools program had sunsetted, but it's planned to be renewed until 2020 to finish all the work that needs to be done on the IAP, including the support until the end.

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I'm not sure where you're seeing that. You said which page...?

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would have to check into that. I cannot give you an answer.

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The target was the same. The achievement was above the target last year, you're quite right, and we expect that the achievement will be same this year, or roughly the same. The target was set in such a way that it got exceeded.

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Perhaps I can add something. The injection of $2.6 billion is specifically aimed at improving the on-reserve per child investment in education. The purpose of this funding is to reduce this gap. The goal is to invest, among other things, in languages, cultures and other methods

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You are talking about people who live on reserves, right? Thank you for raising this point.

May 5th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have increased the funding of bands based on the new needs. In terms of reinstating per se, we are in conversation with them to see what the needs are and we are addressing the needs. We have already amended a series of funding agreements to inject the new money, depending on

June 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They will have seen an increase in their funding, yes.

June 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're fleshing out the program on emergency management, but it's also to support, as the minister said, the capacity for things like water. It's to be able to provide the training in the first nations communities, but on a rotational basis. We added $3 million, and if we need to

June 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We also have bolstered the engagement we are doing to assess the priorities, and there will be elements that will primarily be done jointly with first nation organizations at the regional level.

June 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

June 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That emergency management money is based on events, and they—

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On reserve primarily, but if there are events that we need to contribute to, we do and we fund. It's a big ticket item because we often have to do it after the fact. We have some base funding, but when the events occur we fund them, and we replenish based on the event. If there

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, by and large it is already spent.

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is a fully integrated security management system that starts from the federal and provincial levels—and the municipal level if you're governed by a provincial government. The portion that INAC takes is to do the same thing and be plugged in through that cascading. It stems

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Hélène Laurendeau