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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This is just a clarification question, actually—

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Would you like the one-page chart or the full document?

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You don't want to read 35 pages...?

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just to go to a point that was made here very early on, it would have been lovely to have access to the online resources. They're secure, but we would be able to give you screenshots, if that would be helpful for you to see what's contained in the environments. So we can't actual

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We can facilitate that, for sure.

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can speak to that a little bit. We were talking about that just this morning. One of the things we're doing in the meeting place as one of our first polls is to get an accurate read on infrastructure in our framework agreement first nations. It's something that's been very dif

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From my perspective, if funding is not in the equation, there are two challenges. One is that since post-secondary institutions are not necessarily quick, the accreditation discussions will take some time. For many of our lands governance directors, accreditation is an excellent

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  May I make a small comment?

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just from an educational perspective, building on Patti's last comment, what that does is introduce cognitive dissonance. You're learning something—you're learning a legislation or learning techniques and practices—under one box of rules and then you have to go home and apply the

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll just quickly start this off and then defer to Ruth and Patti, who have actually been through the program. One thing we did early on in the strategy was prepare a 35-page comparison document comparing the courses offered through the NALMA training and the University of Sask

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm bursting at the seams. It is exciting. It is exciting in terms of the mentoring piece. Currently, the mentoring is done very much in a face-to-face setting, and the resource centre staff provide support for people who are coming in. One of our colleagues, Meko Nicholas, who

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As soon as they're part.... The 18 that are new, for example, we find out from them who their lands manager or governance director designate is, and they're issued a user name and password.

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just quickly, it's hosting, warranty, and maintenance. It means they host it. They maintain it. They warranty that it will work and function the way we need it to work and function. Going forward, I don't anticipate those costs to increase. If they do, it will be marginal. Where

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will just add that the operationals have been using it since January 2010. They have been in and we've been getting their feedback. Much of their feedback has been, “This is great. Give us more and more detail.” That's where we have had to adjust, and that's where we would rea

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do, and I would defer to Ruth, because she's been quite involved.

March 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Childs