Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that important question, MP Idlout. The first part of it is funding. Eighty per cent of participating communities in the collective undertake an immersion program, only to be faced with walls because there isn't enough funding to build the program before the teach

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll add that— I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Meegwetch, Chief. I'll just add that we need full-time language coordinators to develop the programs, monitoring assessments and materials to support the teachers. We need full language immersion funding—just as school boards enjoy for French—in every one of those schools. We al

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. It's a really important one. I just want to shout out to Anna Marie, Bette, Joette, Patti, Maureen and Heather. They're all the education directors in the communities with the First Nations with Schools Collective. The earlier comments were that you

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Boozhoo. Hello. Bonjour. Thank you so much to the committee for the opportunity to appear before you today. The First Nations with Schools Collective is an inter-nation table made up of nine first nation communities in Ontario and growing. Each participating first nation has be