Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it's a very good question. At the end of the day, governments will always require data. They're going to require aggregate information to be able to make assumptions and design programs. The issue is going to be control and jurisdiction. I think we've come to a point in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think it's individual communities either. We've got health authorities like SLFNHA, if you will. We've got groups of first nations and authority models already being developed. I don't think it's one community. I think we're seeing models right across the country that are

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and I want to reiterate that the strategy the national chief talks about, I'm bringing the representation of his ideas around that plan forward today as the chair of the Chiefs Committee on Health. I do believe that strategy is required. I do want to focus for a second on t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it's going to be important to recognize that when we see our first nation people, and the condition of many of our first nation communities, we're seeing an out-migration of our people going to urban centres and finding themselves falling through the cracks. I'm a propone

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. As the chair of the National Chiefs Committee on Health, I know that one of the things we have come to an agreement on is that we need a health accord task team for first nations, to go across the country in all of our regions to look at what the issues are and what

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This work here talks about community comprehensive planning. Within that community, safety is obviously going to be a focus. Each community will have community safety needs. I must underscore as well that we have other line ministries and mandates within the federal government th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That I can't speak of right now. Internationally, the Maori and other indigenous communities around the world have a much greater sense of autonomy and recognition, and if you have these things you're going to see results. It's important to give communities the autonomy and recog

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. That's fine. I'm going to try to address that by saying, first of all, thank you for that, because it's an important question. As for taking suicide out of the culture, culture has become probably the central focus of the solutions that are most needed around the issue of s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now, Mike, the national aboriginal youth suicide prevention strategy is a program that allows communities the flexibility to develop programming that is relevant to them and meets their unique needs, but the NAYSPS currently funds up to approximately 145 of these sorts of p

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, exactly.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right, and let me speak to that because it's a good point. I don't think throwing good money after bad money is something that government wants to do. However, what this $136 million represents is not just an effort to deal the crisis, or with medium- and long-term planning. This

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't speak to those, but we can get the information for you and the committee. There's often this thing that happens when we get outside consultants and experts to come to work in the communities. You're seeing automatic leakage. You're seeing more time spent in building trust

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a good question, Mr. Angus, and I want to refer back to what just took place in the Ontario region. Premier Kathleen Wynne has been a champion of a number of issues as they pertain to the aboriginal community and has a very direct relationship with first nations in Ontar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we need to make the determination that action is needed now. We can't fall into this cyclical phenomenon of proactive disengagement. We can't keep talking to see no results. We definitely need the federal government to move. We need commitments now. We need to be able to