Human Resources committee  One example I could give you on that one would be the labour market agreements in British Columbia that are fairly new and under review. It makes no sense for 10 of us or 13 of us to apply for the same funding. Where there is a strategy in place in British Columbia, we could all

Human Resources committee  Like I say, they're across the street from us, and they're mining. CCATEC applied for the same funds. We weren't awarded them, and that was fine. We support all aboriginal dollars coming into our region, except that they're the cream of the crop. We were looking at doing a heavy

Human Resources committee  That's accurate.

Human Resources committee  I feel that we have had some.... We have tried that, our agency, but we find that sometimes the client barriers are very strong and sometimes the training dollars don't get to the training agency. No, I don't agree with that. I think the labour market agreement dollars in Britis

Human Resources committee  Mr. Mayes, we have 10 points of service within our region, employment services that link the really remote communities to CCATEC office. We have outreach services. Our program workers do go out to all the reserves, too, so we do have that covered.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I am, and we have our two program workers who are also out working with local employers. What we're finding now—and this is the first time in the 21 years that I've worked with this organization—is that the employers are finally coming to CCATEC. We've been situated there

Human Resources committee  In our region we work with our bands, and I'd say that we work collectively with them. In terms of the early education in our area, we stick with our mandate of employment training for unemployed aboriginal people, but we work with our education coordinators and we work with our

Human Resources committee  Can you just ask the question please? I have a hard time.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. On behalf of CCATEC's board and directors, it's a pleasure to be here this morning presenting in front of the standing committee. I've been asked to talk today about best practices, opportunities in our region, some success stories, what's working and what's not, and