Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I don't have much of a different story there. The local community, as I say, is five kilometres away. It's only a thousand people, and it has a volunteer fire department as well. There's a willingness there, but there's a capacity issue on both sides. In terms of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly. Emergency Management BC has been good about wanting to do debriefs and some organizing. As I mentioned, though, it's important for us as chiefs to get together. We have to solve the jurisdictional barrier problem. When it comes to emergencies, there has to be a landsca

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Indeed. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In their defence, the Red Cross really just came in at the request of EMBC to do what they did in Alberta last year. That's basically what happened, so I mean they did the best they could, but....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Little, that's the quickest answer there is. We really haven't done much. We do our regular fire alarm stuff, and that's about the extent of it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We live about five kilometres away from the next municipality of Cache Creek. What I was trying to get at is that it shouldn't matter whether it's in town or it's on reserve. When it comes to an emergency and we're in that proximity, we should be completely on the same page. It s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will just talk about post-crisis. We know global warming is a fact and these things are going to continue to happen. We already have a traumatized population and we are just compounding that trauma. Hopefully, we will be able to deal with it thoroughly by the time flood season

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Secwepemctsin] My name is Ryan Day. I'm the chief of Bonaparte Indian Band, also part of the Secwepemc Nation. We're located about an hour west of Kamloops, B.C. I'll speak to a few things that are similar to those that Kukpi7 Ann spoke about, but we have

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you.