Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Generally speaking--and I don't mean this in a negative way--the Métis population is better educated, has higher earned incomes, and has greater labour force participation rates than first nations, primarily because of geography. But we fall far below what the Canadian standards

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It has provided a framework for us. If you look at the area of economic development, when we get with provinces, we're always trying to encourage them to do something. So through the federal leadership, whether it's through the MRED program, a resource development program, or the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll give you an example. The registries are very important because now that the Supreme Court has recognized the Métis as rights-bearing people, you need to know who has the right to hunt and who doesn't have the right to hunt, right? It's a very important issue. The financing

Government Operations committee  Thank you, and sorry we're late. I recommend that you recommend to the Speaker that we get an RFP to get some signage in here so people know where they're going. Every floor, you get up there and there's nothing. Anyway, thank you for inviting us to appear. We'll talk a little

Government Operations committee  For the project management for precinct number two, yes, the employees have to come from this area. The contract is wired—

Government Operations committee  The contractor has to have some of his lead resources, project management resources, within the national capital region, so it basically takes any company that's not situated in the capital out of the race.

Government Operations committee  No. Those clauses, I've never seen them. I bid with a lot of bid groups, and they've never seen them either.

Government Operations committee  The biggest recommendation I have is for the government to start applying the minimum indigenous content requirement, or supply chain, as he refers to it, to these larger contracts. We've done it in the past, and we've had push-back on it sometimes for the non-insured health clai

Government Operations committee  No, we don't, and this is why. For the bid on it, there have to be joint ventures with others who have the capacity. There's no incentive for those joint ventures to occur unless you put in there a minimum indigenous requirement, or if you don't want to put a number in there, the

Government Operations committee  Okay. I'll give the clerk the templates that they've lost over there. Non-insured health benefits: this is claims processing, the back end of stuff. You submit a claim to the pharmacist and the pharmacist has to send it to somebody so he's going to get paid, right? It's all the

Government Operations committee  I was paid to do it for Indigenous Affairs, and then I applied it to the 2010 Olympic committee with good success. I did—

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry...?

Government Operations committee  Yes, so it's—

Government Operations committee  No, we've been applying it. That's how Membertou got its big successes and got all those contracts, because there was a requirement. Shipbuilding in Victoria.... It has been applied. The templates are there. They lost them.

Government Operations committee  I'll give you the templates.