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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's very holistic. I worked with the Sayisi Dene in Tadoule Lake, northern Manitoba. They're a one-hour flight north of Thompson, fly-in only. In that community, it's a very basic thing. If a lock breaks on the band office, it could take them weeks to bring in a locksmith to replace it.

March 19th, 2019Committee meeting

Jessie Hemphill

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the previous speakers mentioned rural depopulation being an issue. I think the government, in some cases, exacerbates this by centralizing essential services in urban centres. I grew up in a town of 4,000 people. We saw, over the years, those services centralized in your hometown, three hours away from us.

March 19th, 2019Committee meeting

Jessie Hemphill

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a shortage of planners. I served a couple of terms in local government myself, and for our municipality, as you said, we had one planner covering a territory about one-fiftieth of the territory of my own first nation, which doesn't even have a professional planner on staff, so there's a huge deficit there.

March 19th, 2019Committee meeting

Jessie Hemphill

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Gilakasla. [Witness spoke in Kwakwala] [English] I'm Jessie Hemphill. I'm from the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations, located on the north bend of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. I'm coming to you today from Nanaimo, B.C., in Snuneymuxw territory, and I'm really happy to have been invited.

March 19th, 2019Committee meeting

Jessie Hemphill