Thank you, Mr. Chair.
For me, the importance of education is the utmost. I attended post-secondary education, but not at a first nations university.
I do have some concerns over the wording of the motion. With my background, accountability is the utmost, and what I'm seeing here is financial fraud. What happens affects the students as a whole--where this money is going, where has it been spent, and who benefited.
My concern is that if as a committee we do sit down and talk about this to the witnesses, what types of legal proceedings will fall from it? In that sense, will these witnesses have to be subpoenaed or interviewed in case there's a Criminal Code investigation?
Also, I'm looking at the mandate of the wording here. When you say “province of Saskatchewan”, we have to work with the province. Are we looking at the ministers? We have to look at their timeframe too, because the House is sitting in Saskatchewan right now.
I'm looking at the timeframe of March 31. We're going to have to work with the province to bring the province forward and their staff members who will have to be witnesses. We have to take that into consideration, I think.
I'm hoping Ms. Crowder can find some way that we can work with the other governing bodies.