Status of Women committee  I wish I had some statistics to be able to support it, other than what I've read from the sources I found. Is it something more urban than rural? Again, I really can't provide any more clarification on that. I apologize. What your questions bring up, though, and what they provi

Status of Women committee  There are several things. First of all, coming from a first nations community, a Métis community, or even an Inuit community to an urban setting, whether it's Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, or you name it, for a young woman, a teenage girl, maybe with a couple of children, it is, a

Status of Women committee  It's probably a lack of serious attention to the issues that aboriginal women are finding themselves in, in Canada; not enough support from governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—to provide, to continue to support places like Minwaashin Lodge, which are there to provide t

Status of Women committee  Precisely. Continuity is so important. Program funding is important. They need to know that they will be able to provide the services next year, and the next, and so on. I know Treasury Board does five-year renewals. That's fine.

Status of Women committee  We have a best practice model already, and that's the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. There were things...the administration and the allocation of funding through the Aboriginal Healing Foundation was incredibly effective. It was aboriginal controlled. It wasn't just first nations

Status of Women committee  According to the 2006 census, that is the number.

Status of Women committee  I don't think there are enough. Whatever is out there, again, is piecemeal and project-oriented.

Status of Women committee  Friendship centres have been trying to help men and families.

Status of Women committee  Unfortunately, no.

Status of Women committee  There are a number of reasons. The first reason is because the urban population is increasing and continues to increase year after year. There are always new people coming into the urban settings. For me, I guess, it always comes back to the lack of continuity in the organization

Status of Women committee  I wouldn't say that. I would say that aboriginal men who are seeking to be healed are coming to the centres to find some help.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank you and the members of the committee for the invitation to come to present to you on this—as Cindy very eloquently said—very important and serious matter and issue. As I prepare presentations to make before various committees that the NA

Human Resources committee  In the urban areas there are obviously a lot more challenges because of the composition of the urban aboriginal population. But I think there is still the same value of wanting to be able to assure that native children are in the care of native parents, whether they are foster pa

Human Resources committee  There would be a preference to find either adoptive or foster parents who are from the same nation. If it's a Métis child, find Métis. If it's a first nation child, find first nation parents. If all goes well, if it's an Ojibway child, find Ojibway parents. But if not, find someb

Human Resources committee  There are provincial and territorial agencies that work with the Native Child and Family Service Agency of Toronto. They would work with the Children's Aid Society and with the provincial government, and it is the same in Vancouver. They would fall within the purview of provincia