Ottawa earmarks $18-billion on Indigenous spending

Ottawa says it’s ‘accelerating’ a national action plan that’s almost a year behind schedule as it nears the two-year anniversary of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, left, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, and Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal oversee files related to Indigenous communities.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 19, 2021

Budget 2021 lays out expansive spending on Indigenous services, reaching $18-billion over five years, to address longstanding inequities that Ottawa says have been exacerbated by COVID-19. The largest promises, typically over a ...

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