Canadian Heritage committee  On first nations, no questions were specifically focused on aboriginal peoples. We did ask the question, and I'm pulling up the numbers now, about what about Canada most deserves to be celebrated. This was one of the open-ended questions. I'm looking at the numbers here.

Canadian Heritage committee  From first nations respondents?

Canadian Heritage committee  There were aboriginal peoples in our survey. But as a national survey of a thousand, a fairly small number of individuals would self-identify as first nations, Métis, or Inuit. There would be too few to be able to analyze that research separately here, so we were unable to do tha

Canadian Heritage committee  I have a couple of points. To speak to some of Andrea's comments, it has to be part of the vision. To put it into the educational system, you need a lot of people in the educational system at the provincial and local level to buy in. You can't really mandate that at the federal

Canadian Heritage committee  It's an interesting question. It was not something addressed in this survey, and I'm not aware of any other research. It would be a difficult question to get a meaningful answer to at this point, because most Canadians aren't really aware of 2017, haven't thought about it, don't

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question. Let me respond in two parts. In terms of the sample of 1,000, it's not the largest sample. Speaking as somebody who has been trained in this business, it's large enough to get a representative sample of Canadians nationally with some look at the regional n

Canadian Heritage committee  We didn't get into that. We did ask about the importance of involvement from different sectors. In the question on leadership, Canadian companies were on the list. We asked how important each of these sectors might be in playing some sort of leadership role in supporting the 150t

Canadian Heritage committee  In the context of the survey I reported on, there really wasn't much scope for us to try to poll ideas in that context, because when we were doing the survey we hadn't given people much preparation to think about this. The survey really was trying to capture some initial reaction

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't mean to suggest that history should be avoided, but I think there perhaps might be a danger if this celebration were overly focused simply on the past. I think that has to be one of several elements.

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, we presented some of these concepts in the survey to get people's initial reaction to them. People did respond. In some there was more enthusiasm than in others, and that shows in the numbers. We did not attempt in this survey to get their own ideas, because given the lack

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I can. If we compare allophones to the national total, “beliefs and values” was 49% nationally, 50% among allophones. Multiculturalism was higher than the national average. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a little lower. “People in history” was almost the same as the

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question. Let me clarify. Beliefs and values is a collection of a number of responses. This was what we call an open-ended question, where we asked the question and did not give them any categories. So it was whatever they came out with. That's important to do, bec

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're drawing. So if you could just clarify....

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, I understand. This was not that extensive a survey. I think some of the questions were framed in a way that perhaps it might be understandable if people were thinking it's a birthday, and what we should commemorate. I think the focus theme does come out in terms of our co

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess we'd have to look at which specific question you're looking at. Again, the interest in the 150th isn't as high in Quebec as it is in other parts of the country. Most of the numbers in the presentation deck are the national numbers, so they do even out a little bit. It's c