A great move by Jim Prentice.

New Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has announced the new government will be overhauling aboriginal education in Canada (I would link the article but you have to pay for it and I don't). The plan will make aboriginal leaders accountable for funding they receive and educational standards equivalent to all other provincial school acts will be used as benchmarks. This is a welcome step and one that will go a long way to helping aboriginal youth develop the skills, knowledge, and most importantly confidence, to compete in Canadian society. Our past treatment of our aboriginals has obviously been a true black mark on Canada. But aboriginal leaders treatment of their own people has not been much better and have created or furthered a lot of misfortune on reserves. Making native leaders, Phil Fontana in particular, accountable to federal government for how money they are given (aboriginal portfolios account for the biggest percentage of government funding) is spent only makes sense. I hope this approach will carry over into other areas of policy.