Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This is from our members; these are companies that are actually trying to move projects forward and are engaged on a day-to-day basis with the indigenous communities whom their projects affect. Their interpretation—and this is verified by indigenous representatives whom I've spo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I do not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Great. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm used to presenting for five minutes, so I'll be fast, and I'll give my co-panellists the remainder of my time. First of all, thank you very much for the invitation to be here this afternoon. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce deeply app

Natural Resources committee  Just to be clear, when we talk about indigenous peoples, we're talking about all three constitutionally recognized indigenous peoples. I think that type of agreement—the James Bay agreement—is certainly something that can be looked to. I don't think we would ever advocate that it

Natural Resources committee  I can start.

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, I am pleased to be able to be here with you this morning. I am going to switch to English, in the interest of time. It will be a lot more pleasant if I proceed in English. My presentation is going to focus on the aspect of your committee's study that examines

Human Resources committee  The only thing that I would add is, one of the things that our members have told us is very important and that we've also heard from educators is the issue of transitional assistance for aboriginal peoples because many of them do have to leave their home communities to go to high

Human Resources committee  This is a program that RBC started, as I mentioned, in the early 1990s, more than 20 years ago. They recruit aboriginal students from across the country to work in their branches, mostly in the customer-facing functions, because in my understanding of how it works, most of the te

Human Resources committee  Yes, and just to be clear, my expertise is not.... I believe that someone from the chamber has already appeared before you and addressed the broader issue of the skills challenge. I think that from our perspective it is best characterized as a skills mismatch. That's how employ

Human Resources committee  That would be correct, yes.

Human Resources committee  Good morning, members. I'd like to say that I thank you very much for having given me the opportunity to meet with you this morning. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce released the report, Opportunity Found: Improving the Participation of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada's Workforce,

Human Resources committee  We get into this in that same section of the report on adding value. It's the notion of sustainability in the creation of small and medium sized businesses that initially may be created around a particular major project or operation. The desire would be that they become sustainab

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. That's exactly what--

Human Resources committee  No, we did not--

Human Resources committee  Again, we do have Credit Union Central as one of our members, so yes, from the chamber, I did consult with them. I talked to the Swan Valley Credit Union in Manitoba, which talked about this unfortunate circumstance of not having a rail infrastructure in place to accommodate the