Finance committee  To clarify, Yukon College has been eligible for NSERC and SSHRC, for a number of years, and we currently have multi-million of dollars' worth of research grants operating in the north. We are the principle investigators and the money stays in the north. One of the real advantages

Finance committee  We haven't had discussions with the ministers, but I have been in Ottawa twice over the last few months and met with a number of the different departments, including Indigenous and Northern Affairs, ESDC and CanNor on a couple of occasions. Certainly, we meet regularly with the t

Finance committee  I just want to add that we have been watching Dechinta's work and the really wonderful groundbreaking things they're doing. I would also add that Yukon College recently received a very significant grant of $5 million from the Mastercard Foundation. With that money, we are workin

Finance committee  Perhaps I can speak a bit about the Yukon. I don't have exact figures, but I do know that the Yukon government spends about $4 million a year on what's called the Yukon grant, much of which goes to students who are studying in the south. There is no return requirement for them to

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. I want to open by acknowledging that we are convening on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. I'd like to thank the committee members for coming to Whitehorse to hear our story an

Foreign Affairs committee  Adaptation can mean many things. We have contaminants that are emerging from the soils as permafrost disappears. Those contaminants are getting into our food sources. They're affecting people's health. We have very high incidences of certain diseases and cancers because of that.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have much of a comment. Kyoto was signed before I moved north, so it wasn't on my radar. We see contaminants in the north more directly than you do in the south. Certainly it has an immediate impact here. From a personal perspective, we face energy issues every day. We j

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Unfortunately, we had our student awards that night, which I always feel is very important to attend. We did send our vice-president of research and academics. Dr. Chris Hawkins did attend the meetings. I think we have attended almost all of the rectors' meeting. That was a rec

Foreign Affairs committee  I've never said that it wasn't important. What I said was that with limited resources I would prefer to build our colleges to provide better and more options for students in the north. However, what I've always said is that the value of UArctic is the network of professionals and

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that it's not an either/or situation. To me, the value of the University of the Arctic is that it does connect the learning and research that is happening across the north. That informs the Arctic Council, where parliamentarians can have the discussions that need to h

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said at the beginning of my presentation, everything begins and ends with education. To me, the Arctic Council is about providing a forum for us to learn what others in the north have learned ahead of us. Whether there are good, sustainable practices that we can learn from i

Foreign Affairs committee  To answer the first part of your question, we are seeing the uptake increasing rapidly. I think you would be very impressed to come into our communities in the Yukon and see how many of the young people are going on and completing degrees and post-graduate degrees. And many of th

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a bachelor of science in conservation sciences, we have a bachelor of education and a bachelor of social work, we have a master's in educational leadership, a master's in education curriculum, and a master's in public administration.