Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. Thank you very much for the question. The experience that we have had here for the last couple of years for sure is that there is a high cost of materials, high cost of delivery, high cost of everything, and high cost of fuel, which basically factors in there as well. One

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, I must say that we are grateful for the dollars that have been provided for the transitional housing program, which is greatly needed here for our settlement. The only problem with that is that these units are a lot smaller, and they're only meant for transitional p

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do have the capacity here to build homes. We've trained tradespeople in years gone by. We have the capacity to build a home, but as for the capacity to install utilities such as the electrical part of it, the power lines and the natural gas lines, we don't have the capacity to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are obviously challenged with the employment part of it, if that's what you're asking, Ms. Stubbs. We generate a few job shares through our entities, through our development corporation and our sand and gravel businesses that we have, which employ just a small number of indivi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I guess I can kick-start this thing. I keep hearing about the dollars that are provided to these nations, the Métis nation, the Métis National Council and those kinds of organizations, but as land-based people, the Métis people like us, who own their own land, have not be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  All right. We currently have 40 people on the waiting list. Affordable housing is needed in our settlement. Our settlement is largely a low-income community and, compared to many Canadian indigenous communities, our unemployment rate amongst our young people is high, as many of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mrs. Stubbs. On the infrastructure that you're talking about, we look at it as two categories. One of them is basically building roads and adding on to our water treatment plant. That's the one infrastructure budget we do have. We don't have a housing budget

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We haven't received any infrastructure dollars from the federal government other than the grant that we applied for through the provincial programs that are available.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Thank you very much to the committee today for allowing me the time to do a presentation, and thanks to the two presenters who came before me as well. My name is Stan Delorme. I'm the chairperson of the Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement. Our council consists of four