Status of Women committee  Good morning. Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to provide an overview of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's programming that supports indigenous women entrepreneurs and businesses. Before I begin, I'd like to recognize that we're on the traditional territory of

Natural Resources committee  I'd just like to jump in here. I didn't want to leave the impression that we're not working with the provinces. When we look at community capacity development, definitely, as Mr. Rae has said, in the area of the Ring of Fire, the project that we're doing there has Ontario at the

Natural Resources committee  There's certainly, along with our department, which has funding for economic development to look at opportunities for communities to take advantage of development, also Employment and Social Development Canada. They have their ASETS program and their strategic partnership fund, w

Natural Resources committee  In terms of the Ring of Fire and the nine Matawa communities, through our strategic partnerships initiative we have been working collectively with Health Canada and the Province of Ontario to try to get the nine Matawa communities to sign on to a new whole-of-government approach

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to speak today. I would like to share some of the steps taken by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to improve first nations participation and benefits gained from mining projects. The federal crown has a fiduc

Human Resources committee  Maybe it's the regional development agencies that you need to speak to, who often have tourism targeted as one of the investment areas they do, and they will do the work with enterprise in the private sector. It would be CanNor, and Western Economic Diversification, and so forth.

Human Resources committee  We don't actually have responsibility at all for the LMAs and LMDAs. They are managed by provinces, and it would be through Employment and Social Development Canada, but if you have particular questions, we could endeavour to answer them afterwards.

Human Resources committee  We worked with them to identify their needs. Their needs were skills training and development. The ASETS program works well, so we're using the ASETS network to do that training with them.

Human Resources committee  I don't think the start date.... We actually solicited proposals in July. Proposals came in at the end of August. We have reviewed those proposals through the fall. We've identified 23 successful proponents twinned with ASETS service providers. We're in the process of finalizing

Human Resources committee  I can't speak to what the jobs fund has done in terms of notification.

Human Resources committee  Are you talking specifically about tax issues? I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about in terms of resolution issues.

Human Resources committee  We've been working with first nations over the last number of years to get to active measures, and we've been building on successes they've used. In terms of the first nations job fund, what we identified through our work with first nations is a lack of access to skills training

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Madam Chair and honourable members, we are pleased that your committee is studying the opportunities for aboriginal persons in the workforce and specifically the supports available to them through the Government of Canada. We're glad to have the opportunity to contrib

Human Resources committee  I'm going to share with Allan. He's going to do a portion of the AANDC presentation.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I think the Public Health Agency of Canada committed that we would follow up and have them provide that information to the committee.