Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're correct. We still have to do a lot of work to do on the water front. One of the things we believe in is investing in training, while ensuring that water facilities are properly maintained and will continue to provide water for the community members. We know that many fir

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Keith, do you have the answer? I'll invite my colleague Lynne Newman who would have that answer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to infrastructure, 3,565 projects are under way at this time, and 2,000 have been completed. Some 1,057 projects have training or capacity reinforcement components; 55 of these have to do with drinking water treatment, 619 concern housing and real estate, 5 involve e

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for those three questions. Regarding the number of indigenous operators, I'll have to get back to you on that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Chair, thank you for the question. I'm going to invite my colleague, Adrian Walraven, to take this question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can do that. Let me just pull the statistics on the operators. You're quite correct that we have now lifted over 70 water advisories. From an infrastructure perspective, one of the things we have been working on is capacity-building at that level. We've trained circuit rider

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With all the investments we're putting in place in training and what we're learning with first nations and with our practitioners, we're also building other tools. As we put the water systems in place, we will continue developing the training and doing seminars, even yearly semin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of even the educational infrastructure approach, I would say that it really is, as Mr. Conn was saying, a question of having access to education and having some of the barriers—salaries, housing, competencies...but we are working on a number of retention programs and dev

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Governance and Institutions of Government Program is another example. This program provides support to first nations governments and indigenous governance institutions and organizations. It facilitates the development of professionals, elected officials, and indigenous groups

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The department is committed to a renewed relationship with first nations and is working in partnership and co-operation with first nations in a manner that is based on respect, recognition of rights and indigenous self-determination. To prepare indigenous communities to take the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before committee. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the committee for its work, as it supports ongoing policy and program development efforts at Indigenous Services Canada. Your feedback on commu