Canadian First Nations becoming less prosperous, report says – The Globe and Mail
Jun. 17, 2015
Three years after an economic development board set a decade-long goal of closing the prosperity gap between aboriginal people and the rest of Canada, its new report says key indicators are moving in the wrong direction.
The Aboriginal Progress Report, a sequel to a benchmark study completed in 2012 by the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board, finds First Nations people on reserves drifting further behind non-aboriginal Canadians.
The new report, which will be released Wednesday, uses Statistics Canada census data to compare the progress of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people between 2006 and 2011 – the latest census – on core economic issues such as employment and income and underlying issues such as education and living conditions.
