GOLDSTEIN: Die Regierung von Trudeau hat die Ausgaben für indigene Angelegenheiten innerhalb eines Jahrzehnts nicht auf 32 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Jahr verdreifacht, heißt es in einem Bericht
https://torontosun.com/news/goldstein-trudeau-govt-tripled-spending-on-indigenous-issues-to-32b-annually-in-decade-report-says
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In Brief:
* While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, **it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people**, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
* From 2016 to 2021, Statistics Canada’s Community Well-Being Index, which measures the standard of living of communities across the country, reported that **the average gap between First Nations families living on reserves and other Canadian families was reduced from 19.1 points to 16.3.**
* **It raises the question of where all the money from other federal programs targeted specifically to Indigenous people is going.**
* In addition to tripling annual spending on Indigenous issues to $32 billion from 2015 to 2025, **the Trudeau government is settling many Indigenous class action lawsuits without litigation, resulting in increasing liabilities for taxpayers.**
A new government cant come fast enough.
The FN are going to lose their minds when this all gets slashed back. Especially the ones on the take.
$32B of our tax money but if we ask how’s being spent it’s racist.
$32B and still no clean water.
Can someone explain this to me?
Canada’s indigenous population is about 1.8 million, so that works out to over $17k per person.
Source: The Fraser Institute
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A bottomless pit can’t be filled with money
How are there still issues with clean water access for Canadians?? Anywhere?
How has all this spending not fixed that?
The government needs to do better.
The annual budget for defense, including all of the CAF and CSIS, is around $33 billion I believe. Just to put that into perspective…
How is this even a bad thing? We took their kids from them, forced them into residential schools, outlawed their languages and their cultural practices, took their land, killed their sled dogs, tried to genocide them. What’s the price tag for that?? A lot more then 32B I would say.
It’s funny Harper was trying to get audit done before FN were to get anymore money but guess what he was voted out for Trudope. So we know all that money is just pay back for votes , no hate here just simple thing I remember in news 9 yrs ago or so
That’s more than we spend on defense. Ridiculous.
“DND’s Main Estimates 2023-24 are $26.5 billion, comprised of various votes as well as statutory funding (mainly comprised of funding related to employee benefit plans totalling approximately $1.7 billion). “
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/transition-materials/transition-assoc-dm/defence-budget.html
Because we’re finally settling all of the decades long lawsuits and disputes.
Some well placed people are making some serious money off of this.
Fuck this
The important part that everyone seems to be ignoring is that the majority of those expenses are from litigation. Not from discretionary government spending to improve the lives of indigenous people. It’s from settling lawsuits. Previous governments have shirked their responsibilities and Trudeau is simply the one actually making some things right. Again I want to emphasize this isn’t some irresponsible government waste, this is the result of the government violating treaties for decades.
So what’s the answer? And will the new government take real action on it?
To put this into perspective, that’s every person over 15 years old giving $920 a year to the first Nations.
There are 1,000,000 First Nations people in Canada, so that’s like handing them each $32,000 each tax free a year. If including Métis and Inuit peoples this drops to about $20,000 each per year.
Is that not enough money? What more can we give?
The question is. When will this end. When will the First Nation population be treated equally as all other Canadians. Pay tax dollars and not get exorbitant handouts. Will this just go on forever? Or will we end this at somepoint?
How about scrapping the out dated and ineffective Indian Act and deal with Reserves like Municipalities? Encourage and prepare young Indigenous generations to leave Reserves and not remain as just a number used to obtain more Federal funding that has not improved any of their lives??
Sadly, it must be so discouraging for Indigenous youth to see the funding Liberals and Provinces are providing to newcomers while they are held back on Reserves with little or no opportunities.
Biggest waste of money
Too much money
Thats a good thing right?
What a waste of money!
Oh boy another Frasier institute article. I’m sure this will finally be the one that doesn’t make a broad conclusion based on extremely cherry picked data.
If the spending is making things better, improving the communities and getting them infrastructure and jobs then great. I am all for it. If it proves to be a boondoggle then crap
That’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
How of it truly/actually made its way to the benefit of indigenous people?
Article is just blatantly lying within the first paragraph claiming no improvements have been seen.
The reality:
“As of May 2023, there were a total of 31 long-term drinking water advisories in effect in Canada, impacting 27 Indigenous communities. According to the Government of Canada, since 2015, a total of 139 long-term drinking water advisories have been lifted, reflecting improvements in 90 Indigenous communities. As a result of collaboration between the federal government and impacted First Nations to address water quality issues, there was a relatively stable decline in the number of long-term drinking water advisories in place in Canada between 2015 and 2020 from 105 to 58 (see figure 1), and that trend has continued over the past three years (see figure 2).”
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/history-of-boil-water-advisories/#:~:text=As%20of%20May%202023%2C%20there,clean%20water%20in%20Indigenous%20communities.
That sounds like an obvious improvement to me. The water advisories that remain today are mostly newer advisories that only came into effect the last few years. Many of the water advisories had been in effect for several decades before finally being addressed only recently.
And still hasn’t resolved a fucking thing.
Where’s the clean water? Oh yeah climate change is more important.
i’m tired boss
I’m not against this at all, I just want to see the goal we are striving for. Are people getting better education? How is this helping them thrive?
As a Canadian, I very much do not like how we treat the people who started this country. They should be helped and they should be thriving. Spending money is not the issue, it’s what we do w it.
All the corrupt chiefs are laughing their heads off in glee.