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Geordi Kakepetum, Executive Director of Keewaytinook Okimakanak along with Ross Mamakeesick, All-Weather Road Coordinator and Dan Pellerin, Kuhkenah Network Manager met with the Honourable Andy Scott, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada on Sunday, March 13. Roger Valley, MP for the Kenora riding along with Robert Howsam and other members of the INAC team attended the meeting which was held in Kenora.

Geordi present the INAC minister with eleven briefing notes highlighting some of the different issues being addressed by the Keewaytinook Okimakanak team. The briefing notes contained the issues, background and requirements presently facing ...

• the Keewaytinook Internet High School
• the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth Initiative
• the Kuhkenah Network
• the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute
• the KO Regional Management Organization with Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program
• the KO Health Services
• the KO Financial Assistance Services initiative
• the KO Education Advisory Services
• the KO All-Weather Road initiative
• the KO National Satellite Initiative with Industry Canada
• the KO First Nations Infrastructure Requirements (ie Fort Severn's school, Keewaywin's water treatement plant, etc)