Tory MP Queries Compensation
June 12, 2008
The Toronto Star
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Page: A17
Section: News
Byline: Bruce Campion-Smith
Source: Toronto Star
On the day Ottawa offered an historic apology for the residential school legacy, a Conservative MP openly questioned whether the government was getting “value” from the $4 billion it had earmarked as compensation to the school survivors.
In a radio talk show interview yesterday, Pierre Poilievre (Nepean”Carleton) questioned the native leadership and the level of federal funding directed toward native programs across Canada.”That gets to the heart of the problem on these reserves, there’s too much power concentrated in the hands of the leadership and it makes you wonder where all of this money is going,” Poilievre, 29, told Ottawa’s CFRA.
“We spent $10 billion, $10 billion, in annual spending this year alone … that is an exceptional amount of money,” he said.
He stressed that is on top of bands’ natural resource revenues and royalties.
“Now, along with this apology comes another $4 billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years,” he said.
“Some of us are starting to ask, ‘Are we really getting value for all of this money and is more money really going to solve the problem?'” Poilievre said.
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