Finance committee  Very quickly, we see that in a great deal of our families. It's left over from residential schools, but we also see a lack of parenting skills. Everything contributes to the factors that these youth are not going to be graduating from high school because they do have so many extr

Finance committee  It has been the experience in Manitoba, and we know of several different programs around the province that had the exact same situation happen. Some of them have closed. I think we're very fortunate that the Province of Manitoba does support adult literacy and learning. Getting y

Finance committee  Yes. Cultural connections for aboriginal youth was a program that designated through the National Association of Friendship Centres. Unfortunately, it was not offered to any on-reserve populations. It was more for the urban aboriginal population. One of the criteria was that you

Finance committee  Further, this strategy needs to support the meaningful matching of youth employment aims and employer needs, as we have done at the Dauphin Friendship Centre in our 2011 survey, which I've described. I recognize that there are many other examples of youth employment programs and

Finance committee  Thank you, House of Commons finance committee members, for the honour of coming to Ottawa to present to you on an issue of importance for our entire country. Today I will share with you information on a provincial survey that we were involved in undertaking, the resulting succes