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Public Accounts committee  I would absolutely say so. In fact, last spring we were able to include health emergencies in the emergency management assistance program terms and conditions. Health-related emergency costs are now eligible under the EMAT program, which was not the case before. That is one concr

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  Part of the rationale—

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  To explain with respect to the indicators, we are working with partners on specific infrastructure reform strategies and the development of indicators—

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  We have funding that was secured in 2019 and 2020 over a multi-year period for structural mitigation, for capacity enhancement, for the FireSmart and fire protection areas, and for the first nation infrastructure fund—

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  Those will all assist in addressing aspects of the recommendations.

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  I think what we were indicating is that we have indicators that speak to outcomes, although we are, in the MRAP, as Joanne mentioned earlier, indicating that we will be doing further work with partners. For example, as she mentioned, we have the percentage of evacuees who have b

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely, it does. Even before the pandemic in 2019, for the first time we were included with respect to accessing health emergency funding, which enabled us to put health emergency coordinators across all of the regions, which we did not have before. In fact, just prior to the

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  We don't have the page number for you, but we can follow up with the page number. I have excerpts of it.

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  I have excerpts of it under departmental result 6. I would also say that under the first nation infrastructure fund we did have a target of 100 structural mitigation projects by March 31, 2024. We've surpassed that with 112 projects that are under way or completed, and with 63 c

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  As I've said, we will follow up with the specific page number, but we have, under departmental result 6, reference to specific infrastructure—

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  I'm actually just referring you to the target that we set for the first nation infrastructure fund, which you noted is of particular interest to the committee.

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  I would just say that it really was about making sure that communities felt empowered to take the actions they needed and felt engaged and didn't have to come to us every time to get authorization to do this or that. It worked very effectively.

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Public Accounts committee  I believe we have $82 million for the outstanding projects that are still on the list that we're working to complete.

March 20th, 2023Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

December 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The reason we have bilateral service agreements with the majority of provinces and territories is to ensure that communities will be treated as other citizens in the province. We reimburse those costs to make sure this happens. The issue is that the service agreements do not expl

December 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Valerie Gideon