Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the past, we've been struggling in terms of the collection of data in the federal government, and you know that more than me. I think we've made progress in terms of collecting the information and actually having it in our system. The problem is the interpretation, the analy

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a very good point, and it's a challenge that we have. When we mentioned that people don't graduate or they drop out, we potentially have cases of people—you're right—moving off reserve, going into the provincial system. As soon as they go into the provincial system and I d

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —and maybe come back to school. The best way would be to identify the people and make sure.... To do that, we need to do it with the organizations and we need to sit down with the provinces. We don't necessarily have access to the provincial tracking system. When I was in a pro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a flaw. They were tracking me, and even if I was moving from one place to another place, they knew where I was. However, that's not the case—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I want to begin by expressing my thanks to the committee for inviting us today to join the discussion. I want to also thank you for acknowledging that we are gathered on traditional and unceded Algonquin territory. Madam Chair, my colleagues and I welcome the spring

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  I am duly noting your recommendation and will follow up on it. Perhaps I should send a message to all of my employees with a copy of the report, and remind them of the importance we give to data in general. I know that they are aware of it, but it may be a good idea to remind the

Public Accounts committee  I would suspect that.... We can check on our side, but if the data are not good quality and we don't have all of them, we probably don't report them. That's possible.

Public Accounts committee  We will see what will happen to the department after the current discussions. Two assistant deputy ministers are working on the first nations health file—one for the centre and the other one for the regions.

Public Accounts committee  There are from four to six assistant deputy ministers, but their final number will depend on the outcome of the department restructuring. The rest are directors general.

Public Accounts committee  I mostly agree. The comment on one nation versus many nations is a very significant and important one. They all have different situations. Let's put it that way. There are some remote communities. There are some communities that are close to urban centres. There are some communi

Public Accounts committee  No.