Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could come back with those numbers. I don't have them with me.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would cost more with regard to exactly....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Fire prevention.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, anecdotally there's a horrific number of deaths as well, more on reserve than not. We don't have much data. There was a reporting burden, and so we haven't been collecting data on reserve about fire incidents. One of the recommendations is to start that. We're working on th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely, and that's how the department is advancing this file, 100% with the aboriginal firefighters. They will be creating an indigenous organization. It's indigenous-led. Responsibilities of this file will be taken over by an indigenous group. It's quite exciting to move for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They are hoping to be in place and operating by April 1, 2019, but there's a lot of machinery of government, legislation, approvals, and things like that, which need to happen before then. We are working actively with them, as I said, as of yesterday. We have enabled them with f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We haven't strayed into that field at this point. We're going one step at a time, trying to get to the building codes, the standards, the basic fire prevention, fire training, and purchasing the right equipment. As they see fit in their community of expertise, it might go that wa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. You are correct that it is a very tight community. Over the past few years working alongside that community, because they do have a national reach through what they have been doing through the funding that INAC has provided to them, what we've been

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of assessment of comparability of responsibilities, I don't know that there has work done that way, except for the fact that the non-indigenous communities off reserve are under the chapeau of the provincial authority in terms of building codes and firefighting, whereas

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sure we have that information. I don't have it on hand, but I can provide that. Is it how many have their own fire protection services?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For example, an agreement with the neighbouring municipality type of thing?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I can look into that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's an indigenous-led initiative, and the Aboriginal Firefighters Association of Canada is now funded to focus on that. The fellows who are going to work on it started as of November 1 for the interim part of setting it up. The first piece is they have to engage with the first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is no standard at this moment.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the answer. That is why the institution of the fire marshal is really key, because it will drive the standard. It will have legislation to go with it that would permit the bands and the first nations to adopt the building codes and so on. That is why it is so key.