A note about protecting Indigenous Peoples in the 2025 budget

In the budget discussions, it might be worth remembering that reconciliation means fixing systems that are broken. This includes wildly huge administrative budgets.

Rose LeMay writes that Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured, should take care to ensure that any budget funding cuts to Indigenous Services Canada don't impact actual programming.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

October 20, 2025

Much has been said about this year’s budget, and its coming in a time of austerity, a time of economic pressures. But there’s the issue. This federal government maintains and moves money for First Nations health care, but doesn’t pay nearly the amount per person that a...

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