Administration costs for federal program promoting safety of aboriginal women reach $2.2M: report – Calgary Herald
March 30, 2015
The federal government has spent almost as much administering a five-year-old program promoting the safety of aboriginal women and girls as it has on actual contributions to aboriginal communities, says a new internal report.
The $5.7-million Aboriginal Community Safety Development Contribution Program was part of the Conservative government’s highly touted response in 2010 to the problem of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Its aim was to help First Nations identify root causes of violence, develop “community-driven” responses and implement “holistic, aboriginal healing models.”
