Human Resources committee  CYFN would be in a better position to answer that. It's not the right concept for here. We don't really have reserves. CYFN is the better group to talk to about that. The way our first nations have self-government, the issue of reserve lands and a lot of that is very different in

Human Resources committee  It's theoretically part of the mandate, but our focus at the moment is more particularly on housing and some on health. We used to focus a lot on food and then kind of spun the food bank off to be its own organization. There is a child care organization that advocates quite well

Human Resources committee  The territory has a pretty good, but not perfect, system of subsidy for spaces. It is, I think, better than some other jurisdictions where the number of subsidized spaces, as I understand it, isn't limited in the way they sometimes are in other places. The subsidy ties to the per

Human Resources committee  I think $10 would be what a clerk in a grocery store is getting.

Human Resources committee  Federal, territorial, and first nations, because we have self-governing first nations. There was a reference before about the federal role, and most of our first nations are self-governing.

Human Resources committee  It's 25% in the whole territory, and it's way less in Whitehorse. But Whitehorse has most of the territory.

Human Resources committee  But that's the territory. There are a lot of communities that are 100% aboriginal. The CYFN will have better stats for you.

Human Resources committee  There's been lots of talk. Are the territorial government people going to talk to you at all? I haven't seen your agenda and I don't know. They've done a lot of work. It partly speaks to Julie's point that we're so thin on the ground. She's the staff person at the food bank. T

Human Resources committee  I have two things I've been making notes to myself about as you were talking. One relates to statistics and research. You were talking about the cost of food, and there's been some recent work about the market basket, the basic food basket, what it costs and what should be in it

Human Resources committee  We were saying a pension, but it's really another way of meeting the same end, so that people particularly with permanent disabilities don't have to every month be...it's not quite reapplying, but it almost is, for social assistance. That's not appropriate. It's something that es

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Allison. Thank you for the opportunity to make a presentation today, and thank you for coming north. It really is important to us not to be forgotten in national tours. The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition's mandate is to facilitate the elimination of poverty in the