Human Resources committee  Yes, I totally agree with what you're saying. The question for Canada is, do you want to truly include indigenous people in everything we do in this country, and are you prepared to make the necessary investments? We've had how many years—150 years or more—of a failure to make

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Chabot. You are right that we are seeing real evidence of better outcomes in the approaches that we're now taking here in Winnipeg, primarily because they're culturally competent; they recognize each individual, whether they're Dene, Ojibwe, Anishinabe,

Human Resources committee  I will finalize by saying that it would benefit all of us for that to happen, all of the four groups I told you about earlier, because we are already working together. We're making agreements or deals with each other to support different types of initiatives we want to undertake

Human Resources committee  A big part of our work here in Winnipeg and the great accomplishments now of bringing these organizations together is that we're on this path under an umbrella of truth and reconciliation, recovering some our historical ways of doing things, if you know what I mean: historical go

Human Resources committee  I'll give it a shot. You're referencing first nations in particular. They're only one of the four places of interest that make up the indigenous community in Winnipeg and Manitoba. There are first nations, Métis, Inuit and urban. The first nations are creating what we call urb

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. No doubt there's a need for what you say, and it's absolutely essential that the solutions come from the women themselves and that the housing that is eventually developed meets their specific needs. Even within groups, there are differences, and those have to be add

Human Resources committee  Was I asked a question? I didn't get the translation.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Well, being the city with the highest per capita population of indigenous persons in the country—often Winnipeg is referred to as the largest urban reserve in Canada by many of our indigenous persons living here—we would expect, from a common-sense perspective, that

Human Resources committee  I think the last number I saw from Manitoba Housing for people on the waiting list was around 5,500. A good percentage of those would be indigenous, because we have some of the highest need. We're working with the governments here now, municipal and provincial, to get better numb

Human Resources committee  I can update you. The City of Winnipeg was granted $12.5 million by the rapid housing initiative. They announced very recently that they've approved five projects for that total amount of money. Unfortunately, our village project didn't get consideration, because at that time we

Human Resources committee  Yes, that's exactly right. We see this as a demonstration project, because we have 3,000 hard-core homeless persons in Winnipeg, and 70% of those are indigenous. As I said earlier, many of those individuals come to us with multiple challenges in terms of their health and addictio

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, and a special thank you to Ms. Gazan, our MP here from Winnipeg, for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight. For my part, I'm going to focus my comments primarily—and probably in total—on the urban in

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Vaughan.