Human Resources committee  Certainly. I'm located in rural B.C. I love living up here, but I can't help but see that everybody wants affordable housing in urban B.C. and urban Canada. Here is rural Canada. We don't have NIMBY as the issue. I want Sarah and Celeste and other people to move here, but if I do

Human Resources committee  We need the Internet and cell service. The biggest challenge in rural B.C., of course, is probably in waste management in the grey waste water that's produced. You'd have to come up with a very good septic system for the larger models, because most of our homes are fourplexes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. The big challenge for Kanaka Bar is that basically nobody has heard of the products we're using. We were able to find to find a product that's 40% cheaper than anything else on the market and that's fireproof, soundproof, windproof and rodent-proof. O

Human Resources committee  Absolutely, yes. I've done a bit of an outline on videos as well as materials, and we did do a video for May 27. I'd be happy to send an outline of videos and PowerPoints to the committee as well, which can be forwarded to the participants.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. The Kanaka Bar membership is 250 people. Of that, 40 live on reserve, but we have 90 people living here. We have inclusive housing, so if you want to live at Kanaka Bar and we have a vacancy, you're welcome to move here. For the membership off reserve, obviously they

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Chief Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band. Located on Highway 1, Kanaka Bar is 14 kilometres south of Lytton, B.C., and two and a half hours north of Vancouver, B.C. Kanaka Bar is considered rural-remote and has recently completed 10

Agriculture committee  To change the negativity that comes with the potential loss of our way of life, we should change the “why”. The reason why we're embracing agriculture is not because of the dismay that has occurred. The salmon is what it is. There are certain things that you need to do. For examp

Agriculture committee  A concrete example is that our crops did not do very well this year, and we determined it was because of the smoke inversion layer. Our crops weren't getting the light. The idea behind it was that we put up our first test greenhouse to provide.... It's currently growing as we s

Agriculture committee  Yes, the Nlaka'pamux language is known as Interior Salish. As previously mentioned, there are intergenerational issues. My mother and grandmother were fluent in the language, but at my learning age, they refused to teach me the language. As a result, our language is recorded, but

Agriculture committee  Again, the language we have is vocabulary based, and when you learn the words, you learn the practice. For example, tokchola is huckleberry, but the word itself carries when to pick, how to pick, how to process and how to consume. Within the language is who we are, and who we are

Agriculture committee  For 8,000 years the wild salmon population was the mainstay and the main blood of my community. My entire language, my culture—everything is defined by the salmon. In 2017, we weren't allowed to food fish for salmon due to extreme conservation measures. I'm attending a meeting n

Agriculture committee  Thank you for this opportunity. There are 633 first nations or bands in Canada and 203 in B.C. Collectively, we're all positioned to be community hubs for regional food security and stability, with capacity to expand incrementally into the provision of surplus fresh and processe