Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Emergency preparedness and community preparedness go with some mitigation measures and sometimes—you talked of infrastructure—it's as easy as establishing evacuation plans. We know many communities have yet to be better prepared—let's put it this way—to evacuate. That's the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In B.C. we were not managing the congregate shelters. The municipalities were in charge. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, we are. Maybe there are gaps there. We'll learn about that, because we are doing consultations right now. We need to see if there is this level of dissatisfactio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. Thanks very much for this question. First, we have reached over 50,000 people, through the registration and through electronic funds transfer. This is amazing. Two years ago we were not able to do that. It was the same thing in Fort McMurray. More than 100,000 people in fac

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll respond to the first part and I'll let Bill do the second. On the first part of the question, on financial assistance, I would say two things here. Obviously, the criteria of eligibility and households were defined by the province.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, I will just correct the information here. It's not by address; it's by household. So here that was, I think, solid enough. Where we faced some difficulties was mainly around the fact that some communities were on alert and some were under evacuation order, and sometimes

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just to complete here, yes, absolutely. In Manitoba we have a very solid agreement with INAC and an extremely solid relationship with the 64 bands, and we have been very active over the last three, four, five years. In fact, we've also started to be very active in the area of eme

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  B.C. is lower. I don't have the exact number. I'll mention two things, though. One is that there is an organizational commitment. Last year our board approved a position on reconciliation and made a strong commitment about increasing the number of volunteers and staff coming fro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two ways to respond to that, if I may. First of all, the responsibility to prepare is on the community. We're there to support and to offer the technical expertise. We have the know-how and the knowledge, which we can share, but first and foremost it's for the communit

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks very much for the question. Bill will start to answer it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Madam Chair, and members of the committee, thanks so much for the invitation to speak with you today. My name is Jean-Philippe Tizi. I'm the chief of Canadian operations with the Canadian Red Cross. I'm joined today by Bill Mintram, senior manager of indigenous relations within