Human Resources committee  I'll say from our experience that we've done a couple of senior home developments. These are new, and it gets really tricky when it comes to infrastructure funding. We need to have space to allow elders and seniors to age in place, and that requires programming space. If those co

Human Resources committee  It is a mixture. It could be a bathing service or basic primary care, or it could be to help with food preparation or getting supplies.

Human Resources committee  I have a really simple and basic solution that's going to make a huge difference in our region, I think, and in many other rural and remote regions. It is that we need to have access to high-speed Internet. By having that, our young people will be able to be in their community an

Human Resources committee  It would be an option. If there's anything the pandemic is currently teaching us, I think it's that we should not look at going back to the way things were pre-pandemic. I think this is something that can be acted on very quickly while the infrastructure catches up, but at least

Human Resources committee  Basically it is just by adding more homes. That's what we need across Canada. We just need to have more housing, period. What we see quite often, in particular with respect to young indigenous men, is that if the economic opportunity isn't there or they've lost hope, there's a

Human Resources committee  I want to say, too, that, working with the staff at CMHC and also at the ministry with respect to the Reaching Home program, we're certainly working through a lot of the details. I would say that we're making good progress. The staff are very open to listening and making changes.

Human Resources committee  We find it really important, as we're looking at programs and creating new programs.... We're a unique organization in that we're one of 10 DSBs in northern Ontario. We're neither municipal government nor non-profit, so CMHC actually had a really hard time classifying what these

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. First, my apologies to the chair. I had the interpretation button on and I was not able to hear you, so please accept my apologies for earlier. Having stable funding—and that's more than just one or two years—is incredibly important, especially when

Human Resources committee  I think this is where it's really important. Generally, strategies are very aspirational. It's motherhood and apple pie, but then we get to the actual nuts and bolts of it and the financing. Something that is a challenge, especially for smaller rural and northern communities, is

Human Resources committee  —when we talk about the high percentage of indigenous people living off reserve—

Human Resources committee  —we also need to recognize that it's not a choice. Families are forced to move. When we talk about creating homes and where those homes are created, our programs need to be flexible enough so that families and organizations who know this stuff, and they're in the business of maki

Human Resources committee  Meegwetch for the question. There are not many places in Canada where, when you want your child to attend high school, you have to send that child away to another community. That's a reality for many of the 40-some first nation communities that are in the district known as Kenor

Human Resources committee  Given that it just started in the middle of the pandemic, I will say this. Symbolically it meant that for the first time, the federal government is a partner with us when it comes to ending homelessness. That is very meaningful to us, and it has taken us since 2007 to get to that

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. It really matters in terms of who's asking the question, as well, in terms of programming. If I could give an example, just over two years ago the Province of Ontario changed who was responsible for overseeing EarlyON centres, which are responsible for providing fam

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon. Thank you to the chair and the members of the standing committee for the opportunity to speak to you today. I join you today from the community of Dryden in northwestern Ontario, which sits on the lands of the Anishinabe nation in Treaty No. 3. We also sit on the