Public Accounts committee  I don't know, to be honest with you. I know what I control. I don't know why it was decided not to report—data not available, quality of data, maybe. I think we have made progress in terms of exchange of information and data. My sense is, as I mentioned before, developing nation

Public Accounts committee  We are working with first nations on the right indicators to use, the ones that are meaningful. There has been some resistance to attendance. I'm like you. My mother got a lot of calls in the past, and so I tend to think it's important, but I don't want to presume what the indi

Public Accounts committee  I don't want to speak for them on this, but I've been hearing that for them it's not necessarily the best indicator. Shelie, do you have some more information on this?

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  To clarify, it was to the students. We're paying for the students' tuition and costs to go to university. That's what it has done.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, but we pay the students who go to the preparatory program. We don't manage the program.

Public Accounts committee  I would ask Madam Laforest to go into the technicality of how the money flowed and if it was for the students—

Public Accounts committee  It would include all Canadians living off reserve. In our case, one thing it doesn't include—and that's an issue—is in some places, if I'm coming from a town and I'm moving to another town, I'm going from one school to another school, but there's a code that follows me. If I'm

Public Accounts committee  I don't have the data in front of us, but it would not be a surprise to you that the girls are outperforming the boys. I don't remember by how much, but the data I have seen in the past tends to show that girls are doing better.

Public Accounts committee  As I mentioned before, governments have tried in the past to do devolution. It was done in the 1970s and the 1980s. Mostly what we did at the time was to transfer programs as they were, with not necessarily the appropriate level of funding and at the community level. What we're

Public Accounts committee  We would not have the result that we have if the system was good, to be honest. There are clearly issues. There are issues that are beyond, you mentioned, grade 9 versus grade 12. We could start with when the babies were born. We're losing people from the day the pregnancy starts

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  You mentioned the measure about money. Money is part of the equation, but it's not the only one. You need more capacity. There are places where services are not there. The capacity is not there. As you mentioned, it's not just the education system. You can have a good educati

Public Accounts committee  The Auditor General talked about focusing on results. We used to give a lot of importance to programs and the need to respect them. So, in education, we had a long list of programs, some of which lasted two years, others five years and others even longer, with annual calls for pr

Public Accounts committee  As I was saying earlier, we now have a funding structure into which we have integrated programs. We are making an effort to eliminate many of those programs, and so we have returned to the negotiating table with aboriginals and asked them how they intend to organize the developme