Finance committee  The Auditor General has told us, and it's now well known, that we have woefully inadequate data on post-secondary indigenous students, and for a lot of reasons. We've counted them differently. We haven't counted them at all. A lot of communities still do not participate in the ce

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thirty seconds...? Okay. If we could fund the 130,000 students who will be on the horizon in the future, at $20,000 full funding, it could be huge. I'm a realist. That's why I'm saying 14,000 students annually is something I'm willing to take on and scale up to serve, and it cou

Finance committee  I think it will be very important to support, as I mentioned, the call from indigenous organizations and from Universities Canada for more support for education. It's one thing to recruit students into university. It is another to retain them. We've been doing some work. In fac

Finance committee  You are right in saying the majority of indigenous—and remember that indigenous includes Métis, first nations and Inuit—now, of course, do not live on reserve. Métis would not live on reserve in any event, nor would Inuit, but the majority of first nations people still reside on

Finance committee  Thank you. With the $225 million in additional funds that we're requesting over five years, we project that we will be able to support 14,000 students annually. At a 90% graduation rate, depending on what year they're in, the maximum number of graduates would be somewhere around

Finance committee  Good morning. She:kon. Boozhoo. I am starting this morning with greetings and an appropriate acknowledgement that we are meeting on the traditional territories of the Ojibway, the Anishinaabe, the Mississaugas of the New Credit, and my own people, the Haudenosaunee. Greetings t

Finance committee  Well, of course I would accept more and put it to very good use. I thank the member for his words.

Finance committee  As I mentioned, I believe we are the only national source of data for indigenous post-secondary students in the country. We do not, however, have an ability to mine it or to put it in a form that will help policy-makers make decisions about the future, whether they're indigenous

Finance committee  Yes. I can tell you the money spent with Indspire meets the objectives. The question you ask is one more for the “deliverology” gurus, I would think. I can tell you this also, Mr. Easter. When RCAP did their report in the 1980s, they came up with 400 recommendations. People aske

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. I'm not sure I want to compare a national charity to a department of government.

Finance committee  We're very proud of the track record we have as a national charity. We connect directly with students, and I think that is a very important part of our work. We reach out to them. We also are a repository and the only place in the country that has any data on first nations, Métis

Finance committee  Good morning, sekoh, bonjour. Greetings to everyone, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. I begin by acknowledging that we are on the traditional territory of the Ojibwa, the Anishinabe, the Mississaugas of the New Credit, and my own people, the Haudenosaunee. The qu

Finance committee  The vast majority are working to give back to indigenous communities. Now those may be urban or rural, or they may be working for a first nations corporation. There are many, many dimensions to that answer.

Finance committee  There is a huge demand for indigenous students in the private sector as well. I can tell you that some of the people in our campaign cabinet—the CEO of Suncor, Shell, Air Canada, and all of these folks—are participating to grow employees. The natural resource development companie