Health committee  The problem is that young people drop out starting in their second year of high school. Some communities do not even have high schools. Sometimes, only junior high school is offered. That means that 13 and 14 year olds have to leave their communities to go to school in another co

Health committee  Because education in the third, fourth and fifth years of high school is extremely inadequate. Students are not very interested in completing high school. It takes more work, and the education system is not necessarily tailored to how first nations students assimilate the materia

Health committee  Koey, good morning. My name is Isabelle Verret, and I am a program officer for Aboriginal Health and Human Resources Initiatives. I am here with my colleague, Michel Deschênes, a policy analyst. We work at the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commi