Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think Rob and I will co-answer this question. From a nuts-and-bolts perspective, we have 60 training programs that we have designed and developed for delivery in communities for specific needs, such as accounts payable, budgeting, and process items. We recognize that many of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sometimes it is, but I think you can take it down, as you said, to the nuts and bolts. When we look at our new cloud accounting model, we think it's great. Everybody looks at it. It's a cloud accounting model. It's a system. However, we work with the individual to ask, “What ar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We recognized several years ago that, of the 175 communities we work with, only five are in some form of intervention, co-management, or third-party management. We have two current third-party arrangements that we're transitioning out; they're going to the default process this su

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll just add to Robert's comment. I think the foundational piece to that is a healthy, safe community. There's nothing we can do as accountants or financial providers without a healthy, safe community.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Seeing that my competitors are here and we're competing....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What we're doing, as I mentioned earlier, is supporting the Martin Family Initiative. I have over 35 team members, and we're expanding that to about 50, mentoring high school students to encourage them to get through to high school and then encouraging them, most importantly, to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On the capacity development side, I think it's important to recognize that there are fewer than 60 CPAs from indigenous communities across Canada. We need to change that as a profession. We need to encourage youth to seek careers in the business and finance professions, by suppor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a really good question. When it comes to default management prevention, we talked about the ability of a first nation to finance their long-term debt using the existing models that have been providing support. It not sufficient, most times, to pay for some of the back debt

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for the invitation to present to the committee this morning. It's an accounting morning, so I hope everybody has had a few cups of coffee.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've got some pretty interesting things to talk about. We're honoured to be here and on the unceded territory of the Algonquin people. My name is Clayton Norris. I'm the vice-president of aboriginal services with MNP. I'm joined by my colleagues, Robert Campbell and Kenny Ans