Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There used to be a competitive airline in Old Crow, and there is a reason why it is not any more. Our store in Old Crow is smaller than this room we're sitting in. There is no room for large, bulk shipments to be stored anywhere. Just to build a house in Old Crow--what most peopl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If you look at how you're going to achieve the program's objectives, to me flexibility and exemptions are necessary to achieve healthy Arctic communities. Just be open to flexibility.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From a Yukon perspective, I understand that Air North, Yukon's airline, has been invited to submit their testimony in front of the committee as well on November 17. I don't have a forensic type understanding of business in that matter, but in the north there's a reason why there

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like to echo the issues of communication and my community's issue with regard to flexibility and exemption. If you look at one specific issue that I did not mention yet, with the external advisory board, it says that you cannot be a direct beneficiary of the program and s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From the perspective of the Yukon, we have only one airline that provides regular service. It changes from season to season with regard to how many flights a day they have to the community, but we have only one option, and that's Air North. It's the only airline that flies in and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I could address that quickly, it has been incredibly hard to engage my community members and my constituents. Since May, details and practical examples could not be given, and they still can't be given. We're five months away from this program and we don't know exactly what th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I asked for an exception.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the most part it was, yes. Over the years we've tweaked the system from having all of the administration happen at the Air North hangar. The excellent employees at Air North would put the category of items in different boxes and then send them to Old Crow. If they weren't und

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely it does, tenfold. Yes. You gave me a lot of information there. This is how it works in the Yukon. Residents of my community of Old Crow either phone their families in our capital city of Whitehorse or travel to the capital city. We don't get our food from Yellowknif

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Again, with regard to the caribou, this is the second time in five years that they didn't migrate past the community of Old Crow when they were supposed to. As far as food security goes, 80% of my community's food intake is from the Porcupine caribou herd. Without them, we

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Darius Elias. I'm a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, and I represent the fly-in-only community of Old Crow. We are the only community in the territory to benefit from the food mail subsidy