An evaluation by a third party consulting firm warns the department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada that its employment program is holding Aboriginal youth back from getting work.

Goss Gilroy was commissioned by the department to write the March 2015 report, released under the Access to Information Act. In it they “raised concerns” that the department had no way of assessing whether its job-training On-Reserve Income Assistance Program was actually working, leaving First Nations youth from 88 reserves across the country at risk of remaining jobless.

Source: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada – Income Assistance Program FAQs