Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It depends on where the emergency is. It could be the emergency management office at the tribe or it could be the emergency measures office at the Mohawk council.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My wish list would be to have continuing funding so that we can provide more equipment and training of our people to be better responders, as well a large unified public safety building and one central dispatch unit. It's just funding for the public safety building, training, equipment and PPE.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, they do drills and they have things on the bus should anything happen. If they get in a car accident or things like that, they have communication with the central dispatch as well as with the school itself. They do evacuation drills and they do bus drills, because a long time ago we did have a bus accident, so that's one of the priorities they do have, along with fire drills.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like to see the Canadian customs moved from Cornwall, because even if you're on Cornwall Island, or if I'm coming from my district and I have to go to the doctor's on Cornwall Island, I still have to go to Cornwall, turn around, report, come back through and go to the school.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It depends on how long the wait at U.S. customs is. Coming from Cornwall Island, Ontario, they have to cross into U.S. customs. Often it can be anywhere from 40 minutes to close to an hour of waiting in line to go to school. Often the parents will just bring the kids back to their closest district, but because the parents want their children to learn the language, because our language is dying, they send them to the school in the village of St.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  During the pandemic, for example, because of the ArriveCAN app, it was difficult for our physicians to come to the homes for the elderly. They were coming from Canada, but they would have to go through the United States, so it was difficult for them to go back through. Even though it was for just 8-10 hours a day, they weren't able, so that hindered our health care sector.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  A cellphone service would be beneficial for us as a first response type of capability, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We don't have the reverse 911. It's only good for the Ontario portion of Akwesasne. I wanted to start something called CERT, community emergency response teams. They are almost like a neighbourhood watch, neighbourhood groups that we would create. Akwesasne is kind of one big family, so everybody knows everybody.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  She:kon. My name is Chief Sarah Sunday-Diabo. I represent the Tsi Snaihne district of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. This is my first year on council. In my previous role, I was the emergency manager for the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which is our counterpart on the southern portion of Akwesasne.