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Human Resources committee Well, I think people sometimes get stuck in that one way of doing things. We look after both funding streams, and the indigenous funding stream is larger than the designated community stream. We meet with the designated community people and say, look, your funding is going to be
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee I'm sorry about that.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee No, sir, I'm not.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Seeing that I don't know a lot about Abbotsford and I don't know much about the location.... I've always said that I wish we had invested more money in commercial real estate, such as our mall and our pharmacy. Those were great investments for us. To invest in housing without go
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Well, I know we house some non-first nations. I'm sure there are many. I'd be surprised if we were the only one.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee I would say that without investment by the federal government it certainly slows us down. I was just thinking of all the investments we've made. We currently own about half a city block in downtown Regina that sits vacant with a temporary parking lot. We had planned on doing a de
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Specifically to Regina and our organization, we have about 350 families on our waiting list.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Yes, I think if we had an indigenous CMHC—as we say in our paper, “for indigenous, by indigenous”, led by indigenous people—then we wouldn't have to teach and explain. We're different. Our needs are different. We really need to partner with you folks. I'm going to put it back to
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Yes. They did talk about $20,000. They would give $20,000 towards homelessness. I don't even have words for that.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee We don't, but there would be a small number who don't come from rural.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee There aren't too many second- or third-generation indigenous people living here yet. They're slowly making their way.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee I would say they haven't gotten a whole lot better. People applied very quickly to our second call for proposals. The one thing that I do know really disappointed me was that there hasn't been an investment in our shelters to get away from a dormitory-type shelter. I think that i
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Exactly.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Thank you.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers
Human Resources committee Yes, I believe it does.
December 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Robert Byers