Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour , April 6, 2010 - Fredericton
Literacy, essential skills project for First Nations
The federal and provincial governments are investing about $1.2 million in a project to help Aboriginal adults with low literacy skills. From left: Noah Augustine, chief of the Metepenagiag First Nation as well as co-chair for New Brunswick, Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs; National Revenue Minister Keith Ashfield; Candice Paul, chief of the St. Mary's First Nations; Human Resources Minister Rick Brewer, who is also the minister responsible for the Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat; and Alex Dedam, co-Chair of the Joint Economic Development Initiative (JEDI).