Next budget should fund Indigenous Guardians Network

Nearly 50 MPs representing all parties agree the investment would yield big benefits.

Forty-nine MPs representing all parties recently wrote to Finance Minister Bill Morneau urging the government to fund the National Indigenous Guardians Network in the next federal budget.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY WILL AMOS

December 7, 2016

One year ago this month, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report. Its pages described the anguish caused by residential schools and the gaps remaining between indigenous and non-indigenous people in terms of education and prosperity. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised th...

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