Our first nations post-secondary students need a lot of support, and not just for tuition and the training allowance. That's not enough to sustain them in the cities.
I have three university graduates, and I do not have beautiful furniture or a new car because we had to support them, which is good, because I have three teachers now and two with master's degrees.
You need to loosen up on the criteria, like the social program. It's possible that many of them may have been former social assistance recipients. That social assistance can be transferred even if they leave the community. There is no limit on the length of the support from the social program, and there is no limit on the numbers of people to be supported using social dollars, combined with training dollars, and combined with post-secondary dollars. The policies in place right now are too restrictive for post-secondary education, especially when they slam the door on all post-secondary, meaning the 10-month courses or the under two-year courses. There is no use for that fund anymore through the social program.
The other thing is that it's an investment. Once a first nation can invest in its people, then those people will become self-sufficient. They come back to the community, they raise the bar for everybody else, and they come back and give back.
Right now there aren't enough people being supported and being funded, and our youth population is so great. Even with a first nation like OCN, the social problems are so great, and our youth can't see a future for themselves with the environment they're in right now.