Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I haven't looked at that one specifically, but when you talk about local accountability I believe it's around what I call four dimensions. One is certainly what I call public services transparency, disclosure, and redress: transparency in the operation of the organization, which

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe in communities addressing the issues they have. I liken it to my past position. I used to work for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. One of the successes we had there was that we worked with communities, and the communities did the program design in accordance with wha

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning, kola. Hello, friends. I would like to recognize that we are on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. Thank you for inviting me to speak today on the federal government's default management and prevention policy. My name is Terry Goodtrack. I'm

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it's a combination.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that in any organization there is certainly turnover, but I find that in the northern communities there's less turnover. Some research that we were doing in the Ring of Fire communities indicated that people are in those positions for 10-plus years and that their educatio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would hope and I think that it's both on reserve and off reserve, right? Certainly, for the multiplier effect, there has to be a certain amount of dollars going around in the economy, and creating that aboriginal economy I think is an important factor in the communities that ar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. That's right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I can't really focus to one or two, but certainly in the upcoming year one thing that we're working on at AFOA Canada, in concert with Aboriginal Affairs, is that we're going to select a tribal council where there are a number of first nations that are in some sort of defaul

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Any time you're managing a budget and there's insufficient funding, the first thing to go is training, right? Certainly, what we find is that our communities are saying, “We'd like to take your courses, but right now we don't have the funding available”. Training is one of those

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The first nations themselves pay for the program, whether it's a designated program, the workshops, or to attend their national conference. The only fund we have that does a significant amount of investing is the first nation market housing fund. They do some capacity-building. T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I think it's the commitment to the community: that's what it is. They go through the program and take pride in the certification; they know they've attained a certain level of knowledge and skill. They then use that knowledge and skill to address the community problems goin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there were 527.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could talk about the third-party management a bit I suppose. With regard to accountants, whatever the skill level, I think the thing you have to realize about the third party manager is that when they do go in, they're certainly representing the Government of Canada. Initially

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's aboriginal and non-aboriginal. In fact, we even have accounting firms that get our designation, as well as financial institutions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I'll have to get that breakdown to you.