Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I previously mentioned, our submission that we prepared for today is almost looking at emergency management reform due to the fact that of our 49 first nations, 33 are remote, meaning they have only fly-in access year-round. We have a window of about one to two months when we

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. Thank you, Grand Chief. I think within the current emergency management system, especially with our communities—there are 49 first nations in NAN, 33 of which are remote—a lot of times, an emergency event lands on the chief and council. Everything lands on the chief and co

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Did you want us to expand on the challenges, barriers and issues within our communities?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I agree that it would be beneficial. The other thing that pertains to that is the establishment of funding that is needs-based instead of one that's formula-based. That's one thing we've flagged in this process. The formula hasn't changed in I don't know how many years. The

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One thing we did recommend was to explore the development of a trilateral process to provide equitable fire protection and prevention services in our communities. There are a lot of things we need to look at, like I was talking about with that funding. One of our main goals of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and inventory of that. We were told that our communities, our fire departments, should be able to do that. My question was, what fire departments?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Grand Chief. Thank you to the committee for this opportunity today. I'll just speak a little bit on the Amber's Fire Safety Campaign. We have four pillars in the campaign: education, training, partnerships, and capacity building. With the education piece, we've been