| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1151 | Bryony Halpin | |
| 1152 | Darryl Robert Blackbird | "I tell my children to stay in school and how important an education is today" they have dreams. I try to encourage, teach to go as far as they can. |
| 1153 | Darryl Robert Blackbird | "I tell my children to stay in school and how important an education is today" they have dreams. I try to encourage, teach to go as far as they can. |
| 1154 | Jenny Glicksohn | It is very unfair to withdraw funding from FNTI. It is the Federal Government's responsibility to continue funding, not the Provincial Government's. Please reconsider your action and remain true to your expressed desire to help aboriginal students to obtain a post secondary education, and thus to help their people. |
| 1155 | Mitu Sengupta | |
| 1156 | Anonymous | |
| 1157 | Anonymous | |
| 1158 | Rainey Gaywish | |
| 1159 | Dr. Ross Hoffman | I have been aware of the fine work that FNTI has been doing in post-secondary education for years. |
| 1160 | Dale G. Abel | The FNTI has been a valuable training center. It is so disappointing that the bottom line is dollars per student to train instead of dollars saved across the lives of individuals and communities. Dale |
| 1161 | Cheryle Dreaver | Thank you for keeping me informed. I'll do my best to fw the petition here in Winnipeg & here at the University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Student population.
Good Luck! |
| 1162 | Jennifer Shearer | |
| 1163 | Anonymous | |
| 1164 | Ian Douglas Howard | The idea of an aboriginal education institution makes a lot of sense to me. First it promotes the learning from and about aboriginal communities. Second, it provides a means to provide an educational facility that does not alienate a group who is clearly in need of a better way to learn within their communities (where typically there aren't post-secondary opportunities).
What doesn't make sense to me is how a government could be so haphazard in its treatment of such an institution. I do not know all of the details, but I have struggled to find any malfeasance on the part of the FNTI. It is a young institution, so it wouldn't be unlikely that there might be a few things to improve, but the main quip by the Federal government is that they need to find a "sustainable funding model"
A sustainable funding model for Canadian education is that government pays for most of it, with a contribution by students. That is the model for other institutions.
The real issue here is that the Federal government is disavowing responsibility of this institution, as they consider education to be a provincial matter. This is yet another case of down-loading to a province. This is irresponsible. Though it may be fair to argue over who should be paying the bill, it is irresponsible for a government to just stop funding so abruptly. In whose interests does it serve to have such an effort go to waste? What about the students and the people who have poured in so much effort to make this happen?! Certainly the long term strategy, the business model and all must be discussed, and the performance of the school and its effects on the community evaluated. But that is a process and something that should be done carefully, deliberately and not in haste. To simply give a few months notice is shameful. I impeach you all to write your MP and MPP to address this matter and please sign their petition: |
| 1165 | Leona Bonspille | |
| 1166 | Krista Maxwell | |
| 1167 | Marlene Atleo | The time is not yet to pull the supports out from under First Nations post secondary entry level students. There needs to be room for this type of development in the larger scheme of institutional development and the development of post secondary options for Aboriginal peoples. |
| 1168 | Tekahentakwa Myrna Gabriel | FNTI has been producing many of our own successful professional career orientated people allowing them to pursue the educational and employability means to acquire independence and be self sufficient, closing the school will only translate to an increase in unemployment rates and a higher volume of social assistance recipients ! consider the ramifications involved in this process ! |
| 1169 | Lynna Landstreet | If anything, a post-secondary institution specifically serving a historically disadvantaged people ought to be getting MORE funding than other schools, not less! |
| 1170 | Linda Simon | |
| 1171 | Anonymous | |
| 1172 | Andrew Hurst | |
| 1173 | Munju Ravindra | |
| 1174 | Anne Brackenbury | |
| 1175 | Dana Howse | |
| 1176 | Lilianne Gabriel | |
| 1177 | Ann Phillips | Equity for First Nations People is a very important issue and it starts with education. FNTI is vital and needs to be properly funded. |
| 1178 | Sarah Cole | This is so typical with the powers that be... When they see success in the First Nations, immediately they have to put an end to it. FNTI has helped and provided me the courage to take the next step in helping my community as a whole.
This can't be the end... for tomorrow will always bring a new day. |
| 1179 | Frank Saptel | |
| 1180 | Ernest Sutherland | |
| 1181 | Joy Lehmann | |
| 1182 | Jean Whitford | The school should be accredited by the province, so that much of the money could be spent within the school itself. If it has a good track record of success and helping the aboriginal population get training for employment than I do not see the problem of letting this school be accredited. Whenever the aboriginal community tries to set up their own business than they have to overcome so many obstacles put in their way. |
| 1183 | Andrea C. Hinch-Bourns | This is not surprising...is this related to the Kaladonian land dispute? The feds and province will "claw back" funds from programs to recoup monies set aside for the proposed $26 million settlement that they are touting as "fair" and "just" in the media. In the meantime, noone in mainstream society will hear about the cuts to programming...mind you, would they even care as general consensus is that we "Indians" get too many breaks already! All that free education, housing, no taxes.....yadda yadda yadda. I support your cause, hang in there...the rest of "Indian Country" is watching. |
| 1184 | Gordon Kakegamic | |
| 1185 | Anonymous | Why does the government have to take everything away that is good in the mohawk territory? |
| 1186 | Rosemarie Moffitt | The Ontario government provided $5,000 for all the province libraries because they saw the urgency and need for Aboriginal content in the school system. Try to extract the basis of this information and certainly get in touch with the Lt. Governor who is a Metis. He is very supportive in the education field and works closely with Frontier College in Toronto. If you need to contact me by phone: (204) 453-5196, please feel free |
| 1187 | Joel Duff | I think it is appalling that inter-governmental squabbling could undermine what is truly an important and community driven initiative. Post-secondary education is a fundamental right and the first peoples are owed much more by way of reparations for a history of repression at the hands of the government of Canada. Fully fund the First Nations Technical Institute and look toward replicating this successful model elsewhere in this country. |
| 1188 | Joel Duff | I think it is appalling that inter-governmental squabbling could undermine what is truly an important and community driven initiative. Post-secondary education is a fundamental right and the first peoples are owed much more by way of reparations for a history of repression at the hands of the government of Canada. Fully fund the First Nations Technical Institute and look toward replicating this successful model elsewhere in this country. |
| 1189 | Robert Marshall | |
| 1190 | Lindsay Farrell | |
| 1191 | Susan Atkinson | DON"T CLOSE IT.... |
| 1192 | Jennifer Archer | |
| 1193 | Janice Webster | |
| 1194 | Kristin Acker | In support of FNTI's cause. |
| 1195 | Anonymous | |
| 1196 | manon beaudrie | |
| 1197 | Tony R | Don't close schools fools! |
| 1198 | Jo-ann Archibald | |
| 1199 | Anonymous | There are not enough education institutions to meet the needs of Aboriginal students. FNTI has successfully met these needs for many years. Pulling funding now makes no sense. |
| 1200 | Roberta Mason | |