Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will, yes. I've been taking notes. I want to point out as well that not only are our graduation rates high, but the age-grade appropriateness is also very good compared with other areas. Our students are graduating within three to four years of entering high school. That's a b

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, what do you want to know about it?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We're looking at not only the graduation rate. We figure our graduation rates by the number of students who come in September and tell us that it is their graduation year, that they are going to be graduating. Of the students who indicate that this is their year, 87% are gra

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have to leave at about 11 o'clock.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're talking about the enhanced funding programs.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We did not get anything in immediate needs. We did not get any funding in transformational dollars, which we figured we wouldn't be getting anyway because we were already up and running. Another was post-secondary education, although just recently we did receive some post-seconda

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have a sectoral self-government agreement. It is with the federal government. I believe it was in 1998 when the Mi'kmaq Education Act became legislation that the provincial government also recognized our jurisdiction over education. There is some funding coming from the prov

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. With regard to language, in our communities, the communities decide, because they have jurisdiction over curriculum. Most of the communities use the Nova Scotia curriculum because they want their students to go on to post-secondary education, so we use the Nova Scotia curri

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My first advice would be to do something, to make a decision, and do something, because it's been too long that we've been idle with no decision coming from the government. I think Constant also mentioned that negotiators come with no mandate, and that's the most important thin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Mi'kmaq] Good morning, my name is Eleanor Bernard. I am the executive director for Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey. I have been in this position for 15 years. Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey is a regional management organization, with a self-government agreement in education in