Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2017-02-13 15:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Evan Siddall",
        "fr": "M. Evan Siddall"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4761515\" data-originallang=\"en\">We share responsibility for housing on reserve with our colleagues at INAC. Currently we spend about $282 million\u2014I'm just referring to my notes\u2014to house first nations on reserve annually. Budget 2016 added an additional $554 million over two years, of which $138 million was directed to CMHC for renovation and retrofit programs. That was the bringing back of a program that was introduced some years ago.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761516\" data-originallang=\"en\">That's the purview of our activity. CMHC's participation tends to be more market-oriented than that of INAC, which tends to be more deep support, but we share that responsibility with them. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761517\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have visited a number of first nations communities\u2014not 41. Every time I travel I try to do that, because it's a core part of our responsibility. People were surprised when I referred publicly to the status of housing on reserve as \u201cabysmal\u201d. That shouldn't be a controversial statement for a civil servant to make, and we definitely share your concern.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761518\" data-originallang=\"en\">Part of the problem, of course, is a local political problem. There is a correlation between those communities that collect and enforce rent, and will actually evict people\u2014and support people so that they can pay the rent\u2014and the housing outcomes we observed in those communities versus others where that is not as enforced and there's less political courage, I would say, with respect to rent collection. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4761515\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous partageons la responsabilit\u00e9 des logements dans les r\u00e9serves avec nos coll\u00e8gues d'AANC. Actuellement, nous d\u00e9pensons environ 282 millions de dollars par ann\u00e9e \u2014 si je me fie \u00e0 mes notes \u2014 pour procurer des logements aux Premi\u00e8res Nations dans les r\u00e9serves. Dans le budget de 2016, on a pr\u00e9vu 554 millions de dollars suppl\u00e9mentaires sur deux ans; de cette somme, 138 millions de dollars ont \u00e9t\u00e9 affect\u00e9s \u00e0 la SCHL pour effectuer des r\u00e9novations et des travaux de r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement. On a repris un programme qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9 il y a quelques ann\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761516\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est le type d'activit\u00e9 que nous menons. La participation de la SCHL a tendance \u00e0 \u00eatre davantage ax\u00e9e sur le march\u00e9 que celle d'AANC, qui a plut\u00f4t tendance \u00e0 offrir un soutien plus approfondi, mais nous partageons cette responsabilit\u00e9 avec cet organisme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761517\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai visit\u00e9 plusieurs collectivit\u00e9s des Premi\u00e8res Nations \u2014 mais pas 41 collectivit\u00e9s. Chaque fois que je voyage, je tente d'effectuer ces visites, car c'est une partie essentielle de notre responsabilit\u00e9. Les gens ont \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris lorsque j'ai parl\u00e9 publiquement de l'\u00e9tat catastrophique des logements dans les r\u00e9serves. Cette d\u00e9claration ne devrait pas soulever la controverse lorsqu'elle est faite par un fonctionnaire. Nous partageons certainement vos pr\u00e9occupations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4761518\" data-originallang=\"en\">Manifestement, une partie du probl\u00e8me est imputable \u00e0 la politique locale. Il y a une corr\u00e9lation entre les collectivit\u00e9s qui per\u00e7oivent un loyer et qui expulsent des locataires \u2014 et qui aident les gens \u00e0 payer le loyer \u2014 et les r\u00e9sultats en mati\u00e8re de logement que nous avons observ\u00e9s dans ces collectivit\u00e9s, comparativement \u00e0 d'autres collectivit\u00e9s o\u00f9 on ne fait pas cela et o\u00f9 on a moins de conviction sur le plan politique en ce qui concerne la perception des loyers.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/finance/42-1/71/evan-siddall-2/",
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    "source_id": "9367573",
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