Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we have had nation members leave the community for education and other work opportunities. We would very much like those nation members to come back. That's why we have made housing our priority for the shíshálh Nation and being able to build and construct the current [Techn

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you, Lori, for your question. I appreciate the opportunity to comment. I would definitely need to become knowledgeable about what they would want to provide and how they would provide it, in what fashion, to all nations across Canada. If it's goi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it does not. We still mimic it in some forms, but we are developing our own ways to try to better our community for self-governing.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To bring the standards to a healthy, safe status within communities is with codes, I believe. With regard to the new standards, I'm not too sure if it's like building a new home and putting plastic wrap around it—and I'm not a builder—but with the mould issues that we have within

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Lori. I appreciate your question, and I'm very sorry for your experiences thus far. I feel you. We are a part of the class action in regard to representing residential school survivors, so it's been a heavy week for this. The funding is getting thin as the c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can provide comment. Thank you. The solutions that we have are to create affordable housing for people who need supported housing or subsidized housing. As we all know, the standards and the rentals on the Sunshine Coast.... From a study done about five or six years ago, the S

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry about that. For a living wage for the Sunshine Coast, the average person needs to earn $19.65 per person for a family that has two children and both parents working to be able to afford any sort of rent in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's the next challenge.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With regard to the programs and the funding, they have some red tape. We've had to create a society—this is from B.C. Housing—for our house of clans. For us to be able to proceed with our structures for housing to better our nation members is very important to me. Yes, we are un

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The timeline in regard to the rapid housing was quite aggressive. It was a shovel-ready project that we had to come up with in a day or two. A lot more planning needs to be done in the sense of constructing and providing housing. We were fortunate enough that we did have two lo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can you repeat that, Patrick? I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Our apartments' prime contractor is an external contractor, but we have subcontractors who are all nation contractors doing the foundation, the siding and the framing of the new duplexes for the rapid housing projects. We hope to continue with that once the Selma Park subdiv

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Patrick. Yes, in last year's budget we did receive some of the funding for rapid housing. We have three duplexes being constructed at the moment. We hope to have them move-in ready by this fall. We appreciate your working together with us and bringing these projects f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Alvina Paul. I am council-elect of the shíshálh Nation. I am coming to you from the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people of British Columbia. I am delighted to accept this invitation to speak to you today on th