Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd love to tell you about at. Frankly, friendship centre programming funding levels haven't changed in roughly 30 years, or since at least the mid to late 1980s. There has been some adjustment and realignment of what the funding was meant to do under different governments over t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, may I add a few comments? One of the ways to get at indigenous language and cultural transmission is to provide the space and the programming, and to facilitate the take-up in communities. Friendship centres have looked forward to this government, both in an infrastru

Human Resources committee  That's a big question. What we know is that aboriginal people, indigenous people, who make it to post-graduate studies, master's or doctoral studies, do as well as any other person in Canada, so we know the problem is further down the chain. The question is leveraging young abor

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I'll try to be more brief than I was last time. Good English would help too. It's hard to say without looking specifically at the individual program. Put simply, social innovation and social finance are about increasing the public good. At the outset

Human Resources committee  You hit the nail on the head with social finance. It's about measurement, or outcomes measurement. The complicated component of social programs, and we've dealt with this for decades now, is how you measure when you've had success. If you put a leadership program into place, how

Human Resources committee  It doesn't work like a private corporation where you have dividends. I spend all the programming resources. Unearned revenues I'm allowed to hold over, and I do. They're very small amounts. My concept on SIBs, too, is that we need to have a way to invest back into those communi

Human Resources committee  Sure. I can give it a quick stab. One of the things we've learned in the establishment of the urban partnerships program, specifically on innovation and the social economy, is that the closer the money gets to the community before it's decided how it's used, the more effective i

Human Resources committee  Very careful planning, very careful expenditures.

Human Resources committee  I don't have that one in front of me.

Human Resources committee  The Ontario Federation made a bid to provide the moccasins that are going out at the Pan Am Games. They're producing them in friendship centres across Ontario. It's an interesting model, whereby they leverage their own internal funding and use it to build. Then they use that to r

Human Resources committee  I'll stop there. I don't lose sleep with the market model.

Human Resources committee  Am I worried? I don't know that it keeps me up at night. SIBs, social impact bonds, are an interesting financing tool. They've had a modicum of success in different countries: the Peterborough prison experiment, for one. It has application to certain social problems and not to o

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair and distinguished members of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, it's always an honour and a privilege to be here and to appear before you. Thank you for the opportunity to share with you

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be speaking primarily, and I am aware of the time constraints so I'll be economical with my time. Let's put it that way. Distinguished members of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of P

Human Resources committee  I guess it all comes down to your definition of “success”, first of all, exactly what you're going to measure. If your measure is quite simply an output of that person going through a program and getting a job, then that's fairly straightforward. You can use the national househol