Status of Women committee  I can answer that as well. I always have to use the Ottawa example. Certainly I think we have a good array of aboriginal delivery services here in the city of Ottawa. We have services for children, for youth, and for women, and for housing and the aboriginal health centre. Ther

Status of Women committee  One thing that is evident is the increase of aboriginal people in the urban community. Ottawa, for example, according to the last census, had an increase of 40%. Some of that is people identifying as aboriginal, but much of it is people coming to the city or going from the city.

Status of Women committee  That's it exactly.

Status of Women committee  Yes. The National Aboriginal Housing Association primarily represents aboriginal housing providers off reserve, so in that sense we really don't get to access the resources that are available on reserve. However, for an example of the percentage of first nations people who are h

Status of Women committee  One thing that's really evident is that there isn't a great supply of housing and we obviously need more. The one thing that we believe is that housing is the cornerstone to all of this. In that context, all the other symptoms that exist in the aboriginal community can start to b

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. First I want to mention that the National Aboriginal Housing Association member corporations administer some 10,000 units of rent-geared-to-income housing across Canada. This housing exists in most major cities. One always wonders how the work of national