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Appendix A: List of Witnesses

 

The following table lists the witnesses who appeared before the committee at its meetings related to this report. Transcripts of all public meetings related to this report are available on the committee’s webpage for this study.

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Natan Obed, President

Jenny Tierney, Director of Policy Advancement

2023/02/15

52

Métis National Council

Cassidy Caron, President

2023/02/15

52

Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs

Angela Bate, Director General

Dionne Savill, Director General, Implementation Branch

2023/03/06

53

Department of Indigenous Services

Jonathan Allen, Director

Hon. Patty Hajdu, P.C., M.P., Minister of Indigenous Services

Rory O'Connor, Director General, Regional Infrastructure Delivery Branch, Regional Operations Sector

Gina Wilson, Deputy Minister

2023/03/06

53

Assembly of First Nations

Renee St. Germain, Director of Languages and Learning

2023/03/08

54

Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning

Kelsey Wrightson, Executive Director

2023/03/08

54

First Nations Education Council

Annie Gros-Louis, Educational Services Director

John Martin, Member of the Chiefs Committee

2023/03/08

54

First Nations with Schools Collective

Leslee White-Eye, Governance Director

2023/03/08

54

Headwater Learning Solutions

Dana Braunberger, Research and Innovation

Irene Oakes, Project Specialist

2023/03/08

54

Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey

Blaire Gould, Executive Director

2023/03/08

54

University of Manitoba

Catherine Cook, Vice-President, Indigenous

2023/03/08

54

First Nations Technical Institute

Suzanne Brant, President

2023/03/22

55

Indspire

Michael DeGagné, President and Chief Executive Officer

2023/03/22

55

Saskatchewan Ministry of Education

Thomas Sierzycki, Northern Education Advisor

2023/03/22

55

University of British Columbia

Margaret Moss, Professor and Director, First Nations House of Learning

2023/03/22

55

Yukon First Nation Education Directorate

Melanie Bennett, Executive Director

2023/03/22

55

As an individual

Kevin Lewis, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Kâniyâsihk Culture Camps

2023/03/27

56

Cape Breton University

Marie Battiste, Special Advisor to the Vice President Academic, Provost on Decolonizing the Academy

2023/03/27

56

Keewaytinook Internet High School

Nikki Osborne, Teacher and Graduation Coach

2023/03/27

56

Nunavut Arctic College

Rebecca Mearns, President

2023/03/27

56

Université du Québec à Montréal

Marco Bacon, Director, Office of Inclusion and Student Success

2023/03/27

56

Yukon University

Shelagh Rowles, Provost and Vice-President Academic

2023/03/27

56

As an individual

Lois Philipp, Former Teacher and Administrator

David Rattray, Retired Teacher

2023/03/29

57

Connected North

Michael Furdyk, Director of Innovation

Karen R. Restoule, Advisory Board Member

2023/03/29

57

Kinoomaadziwin Education Body

Helen Bobiwash, Accountant

2023/03/29

57

Native Women's Association of Canada

Lisa J. Smith, Interim Adviser to the President

2023/03/29

57

As an individual

Ella Estey, Student

2023/04/17

58

Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

Shannon Cornelsen, Co-Chair, National Indigenous Advocacy Committee

2023/04/17

58

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples

Elmer St. Pierre

2023/04/17

58

Kiuna College

José-Tomás Arriola, Clinical Supervisor

Denis Gros-Louis, Director General, First Nations Education Council

2023/04/17

58

Lac Seul First Nation

Sylvia Davis, Director of Education

2023/04/17

58

Tlicho Government

Tammy Steinwand-Deschambeault, Director, Department of Culture and Lands Protection

2023/04/17

58