US EditionFederal budget ignores Indigenous infrastructure needs: Assembly of First Nations
- The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations criticizes the federal budget for neglecting her communities' needs.
- Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak accuses Ottawa of reneging on a promise to address the First Nations infrastructure gap by 2030.
- An Assembly of First Nations report states $349 billion is required to close the gap, a cost likely to increase, yet the federal budget allocated only $918 million for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit infrastructure upgrades.
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Federal budget ignores Indigenous infrastructure needs: Assembly of First Nations
OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is denouncing a federal budget that she says all but ignores the needs of the communities she represents.
Federal budget ignores Indigenous infrastructure needs: Assembly of First Nations
OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is denouncing a federal budget that she says all but ignores the needs of the communities she represents. The federal government is neglecting a long-standing promise to close the widening First Nations infrastructure gap by 2030, Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said Wednesday in Ottawa. And […]
Federal budget ignores Indigenous infrastructure needs: Assembly of First Nations
OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the latest federal budget all but ignores the needs of the communities she represents. Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says Ottawa is neglecting a long-standing promise to close the First Nations infrastructure gap by 2030. And she wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to explain themselves in person when the AFN meets in Montreal in July. A recent As…
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