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By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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March 23, 2017
The words “fire protection,” “fire prevention,” and “fire services” do not appear once in the 2017 federal budget, which does include $3.4 billion in new spending for indigenous people.
Despite “unprecedented” spending for indigenous issues, the new federal budget doesn’t promise a penny more for fire prevention in First Nations communities.
The words “fire protection,” “fire prevention,” and “fire services” do not appear once in the 90,000-word document, which does include $3.4 billion in new spending for indigenous people in Canada, on top of the $8.4 billion announced last year.
“There really hasn’t been that much dollars allocated to indigenous peoples, basically ever,” Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday. “It is in that sense unprecedented, no question.”
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