Finance committee  I'll comment. I'll give you an example of my experiences back home. In Newfoundland, in Conne River, we have a system, a social program. We take welfare dollars and we put our people to work on our reserve, and we have 100% employment on our reserve. If they're not full-time empl

Finance committee  I think we're trying to get our youth ready to get into the trades and that kind of stuff. To get that far behind them, I think you need to start leaning more towards success of other communities and building on other success programs in the country. I think that's a key point th

Finance committee  I think it's our ASETS program.

Finance committee  I think we should be considering closing that gap pretty soon—sooner. When we look at our rates on reserve for diplomas we see that we're at somewhere around the 14.4% rate, compared to first nations off reserve, where we have 28.9%. This goes back to the 2006 census. Then compar

Finance committee  There's a steady curve there that we should look at.

Finance committee  We need those programs. We need the healing programs. I think it's a necessity to bridge that gap to have our youth go and seek employment elsewhere, because there are a lot of barriers there as well. We need those programs for the healing foundation as well.

Finance committee  I'm sorry. Can you repeat that?

Finance committee  I believe that they want the money, yes. I do believe so.

Finance committee  Thank you. I want to thank the chair of the finance committee for inviting the Assembly of First Nations to present on this very important study in regard to youth employment. I would like to thank the Algonquin peoples for allowing us to undertake business on their unceded ter