Human Resources committee  The overarching theme would be around economic reconciliation, for one.

Human Resources committee  I know there are more official definitions floating around, but to me, economic reconciliation comes when communities are on par with the rest of Canada. Having an unemployment rate that is almost the same as the rest of Canada is economic reconciliation.

Human Resources committee  An evolving best practice that I see is we need people to actually go to the communities. How many people have actually been to the communities with 95% unemployment? How is the work going with their local municipality? Are they involved in economic development planning with thei

Human Resources committee  In the work that I am doing—it's a new organization—I'm not finding any funding out there to do what I'm proposing to do. The provinces say that they're not necessarily interested. I just don't see the funding pots there. I have been successful in working with the aboriginal fr

Human Resources committee  I grew up in Winnipeg. My indigenous roots are in Winnipeg. I'm also very familiar with northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan, but my home base is Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

Human Resources committee  I see this every day. It's enormously frustrating for me to work with communities and not to be able to fully effect change. What I see as an evolving best practice is doing inreach into communities, meaning not taking people out of their communities but actually going into the c

Human Resources committee  I think I can speak most to the post-secondary environment. I am aware of the issues in K to 12, but I am more aware of the issues and the gaps in post-secondary training. Often what I would see as an aboriginal educator is the need for some kind of remediation. Often the aborigi

Human Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Danielle Levine. I am the Executive Director of a newly formed organization, the Aboriginal Social Enterprise initiative, a grassroots national initiative that works with indigenous people and communities to develop entrepreneurs and local economies. I