Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to that particular situation, we will have to follow up with your office to understand exactly why individuals would be removed. I would say that while we have registration of providers if they are directly billing the program, when we are funding indigenous organiza

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Minister, the survey we did has had a 72% response rate so far, and we certainly have a good sense of what communities are prioritizing. I'll note that since 2016 the government has invested $8.5 billion to address over 8,000 infrastructure projects on reserves.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I know NIHB went through some changes with respect to mental health counselling a few years ago, essentially by expanding the counselling benefit so that it's not strictly associated with crisis counselling, and also ensuring that it was clear that although on average most indivi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's within the context of that, but I can tell you that in budget 2021, for example, we increased the number of opioid agonist sites, treatment sites, from 40 to 78. We're continuing to expand access to substance use services. It's important to remember that we have flexibility

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can speak a bit to the funding. In budget 2019, we were able to secure $320 million over five years for first nations post-secondary education, but we have been working with first nations on a strategy and continuing to advocate for greater resources, because, as you noted, th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In mental health, we have over $600 million a year that is invested in mental health services across the country.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have an opportunity every year to make adjustments to indicators, but I think the approach Indigenous Services Canada is taking with this new departmental results framework is that we're in it for the long haul. We're turning things around. Instead of imposing administrative r

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. I think it's important to also recognize that the way the PBO assessed our HR levels was based on what's included in terms of our departmental plans, which happen at the beginning of the year. With supplementary estimates, we do at times get increased approvals for FT

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of the target for first nations, we are still setting the year-over-year increase that we're anticipating, and we are doing that with partners. The minister is absolutely correct that we have changed the methodology in 2022-23 from measuring on-time rates to extended-t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We got approval just last fall from Treasury Board for a very exciting transformative approach for us in terms of our departmental results framework. It's enabled us to significantly streamline the complexity of our program inventory. We're going from four core responsibilities

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. The emergency management assistance program receives annual core funding, but we always request additional funding for the potential reimbursement of emergency expenditures. We always budget for enough funding to make those reimbursements, but it's v

Public Accounts committee  As Mr. O'Connor explained, if a community isn't able to move an infrastructure project forward, we reprofile the investment so as not to drop the commitments made in relation to the project. We don't want to penalize people if they have trouble finding equipment, for instance, or

Public Accounts committee  In 2019‑20, we received $69 million over five years for structural mitigation work, which is basically prevention. Over five years, $47.72 million was put towards wildfire protection, and $43.6 million was allocated to improving emergency management coordination capacity within f

Public Accounts committee  I would just say that the fire truck in Shamattawa was under repair. In Winnipeg, they are funded $150,000 for a fire truck, and $70,000 in terms of the O&M.

Public Accounts committee  I don't know myself how much a fire truck costs in that particular community, because it would also involve shipping and so forth.