Judicial decision or no judicial decision, it’s same old crap for off-reserve Indigenous

Four years after the Daniels decision, we are still the forgotten people. The federal government made that clear with its one-sided pandemic aid.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller is pictured in the West Block on Feb. 27. The federal government has allocated the majority of its Indigenous Community Support Fund to the ‘Big Three’ organizations, writes Robert Bertrand.
April marked four years since the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ottawa must take responsibility for Indigenous people living off reserve. But the federal government made extra sure the overwhelming majority of Indigenous people have nothing to celebrate by virtually leaving them out of pandemi...

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