Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll forward it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to quantify that a bit more. In the municipal sector there is difficulty retaining volunteers, and the first nations sector is 10 times worse. The reason it is 10 times worse is that we don't get treated as well as our municipal brothers and sisters. We don't have the ab

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My wife is actually from a remote first nation, and I used to work for Ornge air ambulance, which was the air ambulance provider for the fly-in communities in Ontario. That's where my initial contact was made, so when I visit those communities, it's something I take to heart. T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I totally agree that seamless integration between the services needs to be occurring on a more regular basis. In the past 18 months, I've been to 97 of the 134 first nations in Ontario. I've videotaped it, I've pictured it, I've seen it, and I've asked questions among all those d

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First off, I'm the gentleman who carried the child out of the house. The impact that fire death had on our community, I can't even put into words. We train every day, just as you would in your municipal urban sector. We're a very lucky first nations fire service to have the suppo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The question you ask is a very troubling one. The statistical analysis that is required to provide any sort of strength, any business case that could go forward for any sort of infrastructure improvements or fire service improvements in first nations does not exist right now. Th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To answer a bit more specifically to that last question you had on the lack of a legislative framework in first nations' fire protection, we don't have to report anything, so many first nations don't. The indigenous fire marshal's office that we're trying to create right now is a