Justice committee  I'm not 100% aware whether we were consulted or not; I would have to refer to my executive director. But our standpoint is very supportive of that legislation.

Justice committee  I think you make a really good point. It's what they call an outlaw motorcycle gang. I believe Diane spoke earlier about this. There's this feeling that within street gangs, especially aboriginal street gangs, there's all this money and power and affluence. That's really not the

Justice committee  Yes, I am. Responsibility needs to be put back to the government to continue funding these programs. They're not fly-by-night programs. With our program specifically--and I know with Circle of Courage--it took us two years to really start figuring out what we were doing, what wa

Justice committee  I think my project is another one of those project-funded programs. We were talking downstairs earlier on, and we were saying that ultimately we want to provide stability for the youth we work with; yet we as a program are not stable, because we don't know, this coming March, whe

Justice committee  Good morning. I'm here today as a representative of the Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad (Ndinawe). Ndinawe is an aboriginal organization located in the north end of Winnipeg that was established in 1993 as a community-driven response to the high number of aboriginal youth experiencing

Justice committee  Okay. In Winnipeg a large proportion of aboriginal households fall below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off. Manitoba has the lowest rate of school attendance among aboriginal youth of any province in Canada. In the north end, one in five youth graduate from high school. N