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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you for allowing me to be here to present my views.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I do that.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I appeared before this committee in 1997 to talk about Bill C-30, which later became the Mi'kmaq Education Act. In our community, we set the priorities in education. We have an education constitution, and it's very simple. It sets out some very basic principles in that constitu
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There is a lack of political will in Canada to address some of the major issues affecting first nations. The only way we're going to be able to turn that around is by having first nations be more vocal, by having first nations get into positions of power. I'm an optimist and I th
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee How does this work? Is it supposed to work?
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee When I speak French, everybody laughs.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee In four minutes? Okay. Going back to the first question you asked me, one of our current issues is that we need to identify areas in which we want specializations to occur. To that end, one of the components of the MOU we're signing with Cape Breton University is the development
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee In answer to your first question about how we are an anomaly, we're able to invest. We have other source revenues in our community. Some of them come from gaming. Some of them come from corporate activities. We have a geomatics company, which employs four people, that has generat
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We are seeing more success. Last year we graduated fourteen out of sixteen high school students. This year we have seventeen potential graduates, and we expect to graduate all seventeen, but I think we'll be happy with fifteen of them graduating. We have high expectations for ou
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee May I just quickly address that, because that's important?
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee It's important for citizens within communities to have confidence in the people they elect to do the job they elect them to do. Growing up, in my life, I didn't believe I'd ever work for our community. I come from one of the smallest families in my community, and for a long time
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I have no watch, man. I don't wear a watch, sorry!
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes. The points I want to make are: first, we need to commit to funding first nations post-secondary activities in this country; second, we need to increase the grade 12 graduates; third, we need to allow partnerships to exist between aboriginal Canada and institutions of higher
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Darren GooGoo