Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We actually have, although not in Val-d'Or. The problem we've run into is we have to go through Nunavut Arctic College. They have the mandate as the post-secondary school educator. Yesterday we were at a meeting with them and McGill. We're looking at ways for partnerships betwee

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We started off by having regular sessions with the hamlet council. We recognized that it was only getting us so far. So we created a community liaison committee, where we went to each group in the community--the elders, the youth, the business community, adult education, educator

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The mineral royalties from Meadowbank flow to the Government of Canada in the first years, and in turn they flow back to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. The reason for that is the Meadowbank claims pre-dated the Nunavut land claim agreement. The second half of the mine life were actually

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Meadowbank discovery was first made in about 1985, and it went back and forth, becoming a deposit. So it took in the order of almost 20 years for that deposit to be assessed and for us to realize there was a value there. Of course within that 20 years we saw great fluctuation

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can I start that off?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would concur with that. The ASEP program is what we're starting to build from, and we should see jobs flow from that in this next three-year period. The Nunavut government always suffers from resource... We recognize education is their role. I think they need assistance in deve

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I really believe that while education is very important, the key right now is making sure that students see a value to education. I think we will make gains in education when students realize why they're staying in school. We won't see that until we get, in the home life, the sel

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It basically has to be coordination among the instruments of public government, the IPGs, meaning the Nunavut Impact Review Board, the Nunavut Water Board, and the Nunavut Planning Commission, all of which are created through the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act. There has to be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that for Nunavut there is some hydro potential. I'm not an expert, but there are hydro potential opportunities in the Kivalliq region that are being looked at. I also think that small-scale nuclear technology is something that should be looked at for Nunavut. To put thi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We don't want to step in and take over government's role—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —but what we have done is we have participated in school visits throughout the Kivalliq region. Our motivation message is to show the kids a pathway to where they can get employment, and encourage them to “aim for the max”. We've participated in a gems program with some other c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say more than 90% are in the entry-level positions. We've now started to move a small number upwards with on-the-job training, but we've only been in operation for a couple of months. Our intent is to take those we already have employed and develop their skills by train

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do, and laying out a career path for every Inuit employee is actually part of the IIBA.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The NUPPAA legislation basically enshrines the process we have now, and it critically adds clarity to the process and it adds timelines, which are critical to moving a process forward, but it doesn't do anything to get rid of the overlaps. If I take a project through the enviro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Lemay. You're quite right. I wouldn't say they weren't ready. If I take the example of Baker Lake, which is where the Meadowbank mine is, we have to look at a bit of history. In the 1980s they were approached by a company called Urangesellschaft to develop a uran