Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Perhaps I could jump in quickly. We saw what flexibility could do under the indigenous community support fund that the friendship centres have been allocating over the past two years. This was the most flexible funding we have ever seen. It allowed our local friendship centres t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we have. We have an analysis that our team has been working on. We're going to be publishing it later today. We're encouraged to see the investments in indigenous communities, absolutely. We hope they're going to lead to meaningful change. However, we've been very critical

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, in our pre-budget submission we took a whole-of-government approach, and we gave a really good look at what the needs are. I think we were being very reasonable in our asks. As friendship centres, we're not the only players in the game. We recognize that. We are very large a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. “For indigenous, by indigenous” is us; that's our model. I think if the government is talking about a devolution of services in the urban spaces, friendship centres have a really important role to play, especially in the wraparound supports.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. There are record amounts of money announced for indigenous under the reconciliation framework, and a fraction of that budget has been even identified for urban. Going to Mr. Marchand's point, which we support, the CHRA, the indigenous caucus, they ha

Finance committee  Chris, do you want to go ahead?

Finance committee  I might just jump in really quickly. We have some friendship centres that are serving people from about 50 or more first nations, and Inuit and Métis who are outside their homeland, as well as Inuit who either are not beneficiaries of an Inuit land claim agreement or are just l

Finance committee  Off the top of my head, I couldn't tell you. We haven't costed out the plan, but I know the CHRA indigenous caucus has done a lot of work in that area, and a lot of times it's just making sure that the wording of these programs is open enough to ensure that the urban indigenous a

Finance committee  I think we need to look at the numbers, right? Urban indigenous people, regardless of why they're in the urban settings, are the majority right now, and while we certainly would encourage and support first nations, Métis, Inuit governments and other organizations in being able to

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I'll speak very quickly and see if our president would like to add anything. Just to mention this, on the previous question about the economic and financial coercion, we'll be submitting to the committee “Honouring Her Spark”, which is the Aboriginal

Justice committee  Ms. Dahya, I hear sound. Do you want to try her first, since she hasn't had a chance yet?

Justice committee  Madam Chair, may I speak?

Justice committee  Thank you. I just want to highlight that through friendship centres, we actually have a program that's running out of the Alberta region, called “I am a kind man”. This is a program that engages directly with men who have been violent and works with them to basically work throug

Finance committee  Okay, I'm sorry.

Finance committee  Yes. I think a lot is in our submission, but what I will say is that there is always this jurisdictional gap between urban and on-reserve population, and the Inuit in the north as well—anybody who is not.... Métis settlements are covered by the Métis government as well. Each leve