Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They advise the ones they're responsible for.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We need some coordinating body such as that, because as in the story that the gentleman just related and the lady just told us, who coordinates this type of stuff for our first nations people? Nobody does. It goes by the wayside. I run into that all the time as I travel the coun

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just to follow up on that, most reserves are under part 9 of the national building code, which only requires one door in a residential building, whereas the fire code requires two. There's a conflict within those codes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They exist in all provinces but not in all first nations. We have building inspectors in every province across Canada.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The need to establish it was the fact that we have all these programs in place and everybody was treating them differently. My colleagues in Manitoba were being treated different from the ones in Ontario and B.C. in everything, even though we were all supposedly working under the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We currently give presentations on housing authorities across Canada. We provide information and have a booklet on that. We have homeowner maintenance courses for tenants and stuff like that. We work on things like that across Canada. We work with the Aboriginal Firefighters As

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We get a $100,000 on a project base, but we have to complete the projects and stuff like that and get this stuff done. It's really different. I've seen some really good stuff out there, but there's some really bad stuff too. I find the really good stuff is in the larger first n

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. My name is Keith Maracle. I'm a Mohawk from the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte in the Deseronto-Shannonville area. I've worked in native housing since 1974. The First Nations National Building Officers Association was formed in 2003. When working with some o