Human Resources committee  Friendship centres do not fall under the Indian Act.

Human Resources committee  I do not have an opinion on that. I don't know whether Ms. Camille has.

Human Resources committee  That's correct. Friendship centres were conceived of and have always been what's referred to as “status-blind” and serve anybody, indigenous or not, coming through the doors.

Human Resources committee  Métis, Inuit, first nations, non-status—anybody who identifies as indigenous—and in a number of communities where the friendship centre is the only social service player in town, it serves everybody.

Human Resources committee  That is correct. Frankly, that would address many of the outcomes of the discrimination intrinsic to the implementation of the Indian Act over a century and a half ago, or however long it has been.

Human Resources committee  This is for child care?

Human Resources committee  I would only if it were properly funded.

Human Resources committee  I think what a national approach would allow you to do is bring different players to the table and, if done properly, allow everybody to have a voice, which would mean that smaller players or housing players in rural or remote areas would not be necessarily overrun by the Ontario

Human Resources committee  With respect to funding, what is required is the means to be self-determining. I want to be clear: the thing that is required is the means to be self-determining and to be able to undertake culture-based approaches that are not necessarily tied to the market. Take the case, for

Human Resources committee  I would echo once again what Ms. Camille said, which is that there is a limitless need. We could do the math and give you a number that, you know, there are 10,000 indigenous people in deep core-housing need in Ontario. We could do the math and figure out what it costs to build a

Human Resources committee  If my executive director were here, she would say to me, “Tell them Ontario.” So let's say, $1 billion for Ontario, and you can add up for the rest of the country.

Human Resources committee  I realize we're tight on time, so I don't want to take up too much of it. The critical piece there is the inside coordinated access. There's reliance on relationships and on referrals. Eight or nine times out of 10, the relationships with indigenous housing providers and indigen

Human Resources committee  In Ontario, there's a very specific set of circumstances, which are not necessarily replicated across the country. In the first instance, we have the Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services corporation, which is an organization that the friendship centres work with regularly to actua

Human Resources committee  This hearkens back a little to the question by Mr. Vis about sustainability. Three years is not sustainable funding. Let's start with that. What little funding is available is usually quite short term. Also, no government has not done this—it doesn't matter what stripe. Everybod

Human Resources committee  If I understood the question correctly, it deals with the different dimensions of homelessness in the indigenous community. Did I understand the question correctly?