The federal government has yet to commit a dollar amount to the system overhaul.

This is the first framework signed for an Indigenous owned and operated water authority in Canada.

"We can't deny that there is systemic racism in all our institutions. It isn't by some magical stroke of fate that the RCMP would be immune to that. We know it exists and we have to acknowledge it," Miller told reporters in Ottawa.

Canada's public safety minister says the government will be paying close attention to the independent inquiry into allegations of racism and police brutality brought forward by a First Nations chief, while another minister called the chief's account ``deeply troubling.''

This week, an RCMP officer in Nunavut was caught on camera hitting an Inuk man with a moving truck, and a First Nations mother in N.B. was shot and killed by police.

``If you believe in self-determination of Indigenous Peoples you have to respect choices even when you don't agree with them,'' Marc Miller said during a news briefing Friday.

Bourassa was recently tapped to come up with a plan to engage First Nations, Metis and Inuit people in studies about how the virus has spread and who is immune.

Marc Miller said First Nations leadership will ultimately decide whether to go ahead with ceremonies and how to do it.

According to Marc Miller, since April 24, there have been 109 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities.

The money will allow Indigenous businesses access to short-term interest-free loans and non-repayable contributions, the prime minister said.