Natural Resources committee  No, I don't know the number offhand.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. The home community for the ACFN, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, is in Fort Chipewyan, which is not their reserve. Do I feel that I'm providing a local benefit for them? For the ones who are living in Fort McMurray, yes, I do. We have one business that's within

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean in the aboriginal community?

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for clarifying. No, I do not set targets. I can only wish to increase my numbers. As I stated earlier, if, across the board, everyone has equivalent skills and one is an ACFN member, I will give the AFCN member the advantage. However, you need to have all the other quali

Natural Resources committee  We discuss it in our quarterly and semi-annual updates. Yes, there's a comfort level with it.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's correct.

Natural Resources committee  The total number of band members is around 920. Out of the working age, the percentage gets lower, and there are professionals and technical people who go into different arenas for employment, so that leaves a limited few to pick up. A lot of them are for unskilled positions, and

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Maybe I could answer that. Within the ACFN Business Group, 9% of our total employees are of aboriginal descent. That is our core business, of which we own 100%, and 54 employees out of a total number of 585 are of aboriginal descent. Four per cent of our total employ

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. The numbers I provided are correct on the high school dropout rate for grade 10 or below grade 10. I provide employment for people of different educational levels, but I'm not at a political level to encourage them within their community to continue with their educati

Natural Resources committee  The answer, I think, is no, but is there long-term relief? Possibly. There needs to be more input, more development done by industry itself, maybe in conjunction with the provincial government, to relieve some of the pressures on the housing issues. The reason I provided those s

Natural Resources committee  First of all, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. During a committee question period on December 7, 2010, Mr. David Anderson asked questions of Lionel Lepine relative to the ACFN Business Group on employment statistics of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation member