Aboriginal Affairs Spending Shortfall Amounts To $1B, Internal documents says – Huffington Post

June 5, 2015

The department that delivers programs for Canada’s indigenous people has held back more than $1 billion in promised spending for social services over the last five years.

That significant level of so-called lapsed spending — money promised but never spent — places Aboriginal Affairs among the largest “serial” offenders, that is, key departments that regularly spend less than budgeted in big dollar amounts year after year.

The other “serial” lapsers in a top-seven list compiled by the Privy Council Office failed to spend all their budgeted money for infrastructure and procurement, including National Defence, while Aboriginal Affairs stands out as the only social-service department regularly falling so short of budget.

A heavily censored analysis of lapsing behaviour was obtained by CBC News from the Privy Council Office, the prime minister’s department, under the Access to Information Act.

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