Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I'm certainly glad you brought that up. We've also had to rely on the good neighbour system as well. I know that not everybody logs onto social media, especially our elders. They rely on what we call the moccasin telegraph. We ask them if they could at least go and knock o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Gary. I had it in my notes, but unfortunately I had to rush through it. Thank you for the opportunity to get into detail on that. When we first started the regional pandemic strategy, it started out as simply putting together a toll-free number through our communica

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks, Gary. We would definitely need to come up with a framework as to what it looks like, so that all levels of government can make those suggestions. Obviously, what we're giving up when it comes to the emergency measures is our authority to the committee. What exactly is the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to take the time to reinforce the points that were made earlier. As a community, we need resources to hire engineering firms to create new subdivisions, and to further look at our official community plan to find out that we're not building in flood zones or whatnot, ma

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We wanted to ensure that there was a regional approach to this as the communities banded together at the beginning of this pandemic. I really would like to see some sort of a federal response to bring all first nations, Métis communities, Métis governments and municipalities to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm both humbled and honoured to be able to present today, from a small village in northern Saskatchewan. I'd like to extend my thanks to our MP, Gary Vidal, for the invite to present today. As mentioned, I am the mayor of the northern Village of Beauval,