Human Resources committee  I'm aware of the debate with Calvin Helin's recent idea of an RESP set-aside when a status Indian is born and it grows over the duration, or the recent study that they apply through... Maybe with this Speech from the Throne it's unclear how the post-secondary funding is going to

Human Resources committee  There's no question about it. I've heard it from our provincial body in Ontario, where they have done a lot of work on young aboriginal women in sports and recreation education. They're seeing that they have been successful. Now they're saying that they have to focus on young ab

Human Resources committee  I think it's an important measuring tool only because its numbers provide the numbers for us. It's a housing indicator of a core need and overcrowding. It's an employability measurement between unemployment rates and participation rates, income levels and education attainment. Th

Human Resources committee  We have a whole chapter on methodology and would be happy to share it with you.

Human Resources committee  I think a couple of things are important. My words are sharp, but this is my frustration dealing with nation approaches, and it's not meant to be disrespectful to them.

Human Resources committee  I'm from Curve Lake. I want my nation to do well. I think people in urban communities need some focus as well. I think one of the great successes of the Kelowna accord...we were not delighted with the outcomes because we felt it didn't deal with urban enough. That single aborigin

Human Resources committee  On the first question, I think a lot of the education reintegration programs that were developed in the early 1990s had a lower standard, absolutely. I think it became readily apparent when people came out of them ill-prepared for whatever trade or job they were going into. In t

Human Resources committee  It's something we see, absolutely. I should tell you we partnered with Dr. Yale Belanger from the University of Lethbridge on a number of projects, so we work with your community. We're familiar with some of the challenges you have in your own community as well. Across the cou

Human Resources committee  Well, today I had the privilege of being with the Minister of Indian Affairs at a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the change in the Elections Act for aboriginal people to vote in this country. Now think about that. When my father was born he couldn't vote in this countr

Human Resources committee  It's amazing, though. I think that in historical perspective, it hasn't been that long. I'm 36, so all my life I've seen all these active supports. I haven't gone through the battles that my president has and others have. They've been through all this, but they see where we come

Human Resources committee  We often think there are different economic frameworks as well. Without programs such as friendship centres or drop-ins to help kids keep out of trouble, not get into drinking, not get into crime, not make more babies than they need to...what's the cost of keeping a kid in jail f

Human Resources committee  Well, we were going to wait to get to that later. Certainly one of the things you can do is to look at the funding challenges. We've been at the exact same funding level in friendship centres since 1996, the last time there was departmental spending review of any significance. We

Human Resources committee  I heard National Chief Atleo talk about the need for 65,000 more graduates to close the achievement gap between aboriginal people and non-aboriginal people in terms of university completion rates. I have no reason not to believe his numbers on that.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  They apply to their first nations. It's outside our purview. I think our challenge is that we deal with the results of when they're turned down, when they don't go to universities and they're in our communities. It's not the kind of research we do in terms of how many applied and