Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm happy to say that we've just entered into an agreement with Connecting Ontario to be able to start the development of EMR directly with our groups. The town of Cornwall is right next to us and the major hospital that provides that service is not yet with Connecting Ontario.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The total amount for the long-term care facility of 50 beds is roughly 70 to 75, depending on the resourcing we can get. The other one is roughly half that size, about 30 to 35. Again, the majority of our people are all from our communities and especially for Iakhihsohtha, the e

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Put it this way, we would love for you to come and see, Mr. Bossio, and I think you would be able to get the reaction—not from me or Chief Benedict—but from the staff who work there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, Mr. Bossio. I think the important thing too is, I do want to highlight, that one of the strengths we have is the wisdom of our leadership. The leadership have asked me to come to work here. I was working in a northern community, the isolated northern community of Kawawachik

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd be more than happy to share with you, Mrs. McLeod, that one of the things we believe in for first nations to function is the concept that for any data, the ownership, the control, the access, and the possession should remain with the first nation. The bottom line that reall

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Most of the time, if there are services that are provided, we have to work on agreements with the American side. Our ambulance services have the capacity—and we have served in the past—to support the services provided on the American side. All of our staff are certified in both N

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, 12,500.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. In the United States, they are covered under their own tribal system, so in fact they have their own governance system, whereas Chief Benedict is responsible for the entire Canadian portion. There is a separate portion. Chief Benedict?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What we see right now is that this is going to be the trend. I don't think it's going to be as fast as the Canadian system, but the reality is that we've been very fortunate multi-jurisdictionally. We're hoping to develop something sort of like what we have with our public health

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What I'd like to do is look at the indicators of the major issues in dealing with our elders. With the ambulance, where we do have a good system of components, the bulk of our elders are dealing with two major issues: respiratory and abdominal pain. If you think about these two c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's one of our nine programs within the department of health. We include not only the nursing care; we also provide the service for at-home care. In fact, we have an interesting challenge because of the distance. To go from the left-hand side of the area, where you have Cornwall

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Under the national assisted living guidelines, five levels of care were identified by the federal government back in 1983. Those indicate that type I care is the support of nursing care for under 90 minutes a day. Type II is for under two and a half hours per day. At type III, it

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Every province provides funding in a different manner. If you're on the Quebec side the charge is a $125 flat rate to leave, and it's $1.85 or $1.90 per kilometre to get to the closest health facility.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Maybe I can just follow with the ambulance. The most important thing I want the committee to know is that last year we had 156 ambulance calls in our community, and 48% of them were for elders 65 and over. I challenge everybody here to ask those ambulances that service the com