Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The funny thing is that we brought the RDAs together in a meeting before the pandemic, and not one of them had the same services and programs. They were very unaligned. We need to include the indigenous community and institutions into a process of bringing the RDAs back togethe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We recently launched this important program, and we received some money from the Government of Canada. This will allow us to go from 41% in loans to 50% in loans. It requires capacity, information, and it requires people on the ground. In case you didn't know, the aboriginal en

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Access to capital continues to be a problem for all organizations and communities. We need to work together to provide solutions to the major projects in Canada that have really stalled the economy for the prosperity of all Canadians. The First Nations Major Projects Coalition

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  An interesting thing is that we recently launched the indigenous growth fund. This is a partnership with Canada. The Business Development Bank of Canada assisted us in creating this fund and Farm Credit Canada and the EDC participated. We've already launched this. We're deploying

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that's a good idea. There are a number of institutions that need to be created in Canada to ensure that proper planning, economies of scale and a code development, are in place. An economic institution would definitely be one of them. In addition, an HR institution, proc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's important to realize that the capital markets have plenty of money to invest into good opportunities. The indigenous community is an opportunity for them to invest into providing finance while earning interest. Indigenous communities are looking for low-cost capital to under

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With the government's recent support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in there it clearly states that we need indigenous institutions to provide programs and services to indigenous people. With the government's recent approach to supporting i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would be afraid for Canada's planning, the present approach to supporting indigenous communities and how long it will take to meet the 130,000 housing units that are required in the communities and the renovations needed for half of the housing units that currently exist. The l

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Shannin Metatawabin. I'm the chief executive of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association, NACCA. I am also a member of the Fort Albany First Nation of the Mushkegowuk nation. I would like to thank you for the invitation to s

Government Operations committee  That group was meeting from March until August of last year, at which point we met our mandate, which was to undertake a task force and set up a database and get some other information. We achieved that and we discontinued meeting. A portion of that group kept on meeting, but we

Government Operations committee  I was part of that task force—

Government Operations committee  I'm very sorry. I'm very passionate when I get into this.

Government Operations committee  I'll just say that if we provide mandatory targets and, rather than just a mandate letter to two departments, if everybody got a mandate letter that was going to be posted publicly and everybody had to hit those targets or there would be consequences, then every department would

Government Operations committee  I guess I can answer that. The task force actually ran in 2020, and it ran for—

Government Operations committee  I just selected it. How does it sound now?