Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. My next appointment is actually not with the developers, but it's land claims and addressing that whole issue. It's a very big issue for us. Yes, I would like to offer any help that I can, or that my community can, if it will be of assistance

Human Resources committee  Yes, by all means.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I apologize if I wasn't clear enough. I'll go with that last point first, if I may. Gaming is something that we do not have at this point in time. We have an ambition to carefully look at that and perhaps at some point in time be involved in the gaming indu

Human Resources committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Casson. First, I thank you for your kind words. Our objective for mentoring is to try to get more of our own membership at the management level. We're not all the way there yet, but we are moving in that direction. We have over 200 people who are emplo

Human Resources committee  Madam Chair, I do have to leave in ten minutes. I have a roomful of our staff and outside consultants who are actually waiting for me to attend another meeting. Within ten minutes I have to attend that function. I apologize, but I have no choice there.

Human Resources committee  I believe it's greater than 50%, so between 450 and 480. That's the latest statistic I can recall. Our total membership is actually 680, or maybe 680-plus right now. Certainly more than 50% actually live and reside here on WFN lands.

Human Resources committee  That's a little more difficult question. I apologize for not having the exact figure in my head. Over 50% actually live here on the reserve. I kind of contribute now to the thinking that it's more urban-oriented as opposed to rural. If we look across Canada, we have residents who

Human Resources committee  That figure is climbing on a yearly basis. I don't have the exact statistics, but our graduation rates from grade 12 are up quite dramatically and are approaching 60% to 70%. I believe we are now at least within ten percentage points of equalling the national norm for graduation.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I think we've had some fair amount of success. I mentioned the 1.25 million square feet of shopping centres. We deal with thousands of leases. We now have between 3,000 and 4,000 leases that are in place residential-wise. We've just signed an MOU with a developer where the

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Cannan. Yes, education is one of the hallmarks, one of the pillars, of what's needed in our community here, and yes, we do work with the Okanagan College, for example. One of our council members, Councillor Loretta Swite, is a board member there and has

Human Resources committee  If I chose to do that in our community, or if a council wanted to do that in our community, on things like property assessments, then I and the council of the day wouldn't be in office. We focus on the non-aboriginals. A person who has a corporation, for example, can exempt thems

Human Resources committee  Housing is certainly a big, big topic. It guides council elections and it guides the will of our community. We are just in the process now of tabling a final community needs assessment, and housing is certainly part of that. So our council is focusing on meeting the housing needs

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Martin. I go back to taxation. When I look at our property tax assessments and what we did in the early 1990s, we were one of the first communities in Canada to look at what then Chief Manny Jules was doing under section 83 with the amendment to the Indi

Human Resources committee  Yes. We don't know the exact numbers, but we estimate just over 9,000 non-natives. Those are actual residents on the reserve. Our total membership is just shy of 700. We have five reserves, both on the west side of the Okanagan Lake Bridge and on the east side of the Okanagan Lak