Finance committee  Thank you for your question. I could give you a general back-of-the-envelope response to that, but I would want to get the most accurate information to you later. In a decade, the population of indigenous students at the University of Victoria rose from roughly 250 students to

Finance committee  As we set out 10 to 15 years ago with our ambition of truly contributing to reconciliation and creating opportunities for indigenous students, we put in place a program of research to determine what types of interventions, programs, and supports would be most effective in ensurin

Finance committee  The indigenous language revitalization programs are very similar to the indigenous legal orders program in that the idea is to create capacity, to do capacity building with and in communities. On the language revitalization program, we've recently been working with both universi

Finance committee  First of all, I'd like to emphasize that it's a partnership between the University of Victoria and the province, particularly with regard to the operational funding for the program. We have been in a large number of meetings in Ottawa with Finance Canada, with Indigenous and Nort

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. McLeod, for those questions. I'll address them very briefly. In front of you, you have our very recently released university-wide indigenous plan. It makes an absolute commitment to work in partnership with communities to develop multiple pathways into h

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to meet with your committee as you make your way around our country. Thank you for your efforts to reach out across the nation. As president of the University of Victoria, I welcome this opportunity to speak to you about our pro