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Women earn less than their male counterparts, earning about 75 cents to a man’s dollar. But what receives less attention is the even more significant and worrisome income gap between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians.

Indigenous protesters, pictured Dec. 4, 2018, on the Hill during the gathering of the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUZANNE BRANT

June 17, 2019

Often, the income gap between women and men is discussed in the news and by politicians in Canada. Women earn less than their male counterparts, earning about 75 cents to a man’s dollar. But what receives less attention is the even more significant and worrisome income gap between Indigenous peopl...

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