FELDSTED: Perhaps splitting Indigenous and Northern Affairs into two entities is less important than dragging the department from using a 19th century approach to dealing with indigenous people
New fire marshal's office will aim to prevent fatal fires in Indigenous communities. 'They want us to do action on what’s causing people to die' David Burke ~~ CBC News ~~ Jun 08, 2019 Homes hollowed out by fire have become an all-too-common sight in Indigenous communities across the country, prompting a plan to create a national Indigenous Fire Marshal's Office to fix glaring gaps in fire prevention programs across Canada. "Fire deaths on reserve [are] 10 times the mainstream average and that's just unacceptable," said Arnold Lazare, a member of the Kahnawake fire brigade south of Montreal and the project lead for the Indigenous Fire Marshal's Office. The federal government has no current data on the number of fatal fires in Indigenous communities. It stopped collecting data regarding on-reserve fires in 2010, according to a report of the standing committee on Indigenous and Northern affairs that was released in June...