Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Once again, there are dollars that are given to the fire department. In many cases, the community has to divvy up the dollars, and they don't get to the fire department. Our current push would be education and fire prevention. The reality is that you can have the best fire depar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're a “have” community, and usually within two months there'll be a lot of public support. You have to remember that most of our houses are owned by certificate of possession, so it's up to the individual homeowner. More and more people are having their own personal home insura

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's just over $56 a home, and it's capped. The funding that's provided is for residential fire protection only. To operate a modern-day fire department, you have to consider the hazardous materials, the vehicle extrication, and all of the training that goes along with it. About

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm led to believe that in some instances the community will pay an outside department more to be covered than what they would pay if the community had its own fire department.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My name is Arnold Lazare. I'm the director of public safety for the Mohawk Council. I'm also the president of the Aboriginal Firefighters Association of Canada. The sad reality is we don't have statistics. In 2007 HRDC stopped collecting statistics. As part of the indigenous fir