2000 clients is great!!
Very nice to see the service is being used but,how many people actually found employment through the program?
Chilako Meats is one who is employing people now,but who are the others?
If the program is only supplying a few administration jobs for the people running the program, then how do we measure whether or not is actually a success in terms of actual employment?

IS The goverment going to give other races..Indo Canadian, White Canadians , Black Canadians...$840,408.00 Per race. The Goverment is a bunch of Racist asses.The goverment already has a employment center for..ALL.. people out of work, Why give One race of people(Indians) extra money and help??????????

Don the answer is simple, to get the special interest group off their backs...until next week.

Hmmmm? 2000 clients per year. Assuming a five day week, that works out to 250 working days per year. Not counting months (two) that have three weeks in them. 250 goes into 2000 about 16. 16 people per day get jobs? Each and every day? Do they have documentation to back this up? No days when they have 12 and other days they have 20? Numbers can fool ya if ya don't have a calculator. Please feel free to correct my numbers.

So how many people actually got jobs and kept them through the program?
It's pretty damn hard to support this program if we don't have any statistcs and an indication of the success/fail rate.
Phone the center like I did and see what they tell you...
as in..." uh...we don't have those statistics".....
That is,AFTER you find someone who knows what you are even asking!
And..."uh...I don't know WHO you would ask about that"...
I have nothing against this sort of program at all if it is a success, but taxpayers dollars need to be accounted for, especially after it is handed out!
There is far too much unaccounted for money out there!

I find that I agree with the above comments. Even the from Andy vis a vi the relative success of such a program.
My question is this:
Why do our various levels of government persist in funding (what seems like) every aboriginal request for money? Almost every day we hear about something to do with taxpayers money for native indians. Either someone protesting that they are not being given enough, or some politico proudly announcing the latest give away. It seems like their hands are out for more, constantly, and no deal is ever final. Also, it appears that once the money is given out, there is no way of accounting for how it is spent. The stories we hear are of outright abuse of power (ie the money) where there are people on the reserves who have a much higher standard of living than others-their own people on the same reserve. How can we keep handing this to them when some of the people do not even benefit from the cash infusions? I heard recently that the nisgaa are dissatisfied with the treaty they signed back in the nineties (no, Virginia, they don't want to give 'us' back a few million) guess what? they feel they were shortchanged. Our government even gave them self government, why? They are creating a true multi class society by pandering to the every whim of this special interest group. I don't care that 'they' were here first, we are all here together now, and should all be treated equally. That is the way I was raised, and I was born here, so were my folks. Do we not have any rights?
What gives the aboriginal nations the right to assume that they are a special class of people? The answer is that our government bought into this b.s. a long time ago, and it is not, and will not be going away any time soon. Our government should have made fair reparations decades ago, and put paid to this situation, so we can all go on with our lives, I mean ALL of us, as equal, tax paying citizens.
One people, one country, one law.
metalman.