GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau gov’t tripled spending on Indigenous issues to $32B annually in decade, report says – Edmonton Sun
Nov 19, 2024
While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.
In “An Avalanche of Money: The Liberal Government’s Policies Toward First Nations,” author Tom Flanagan argues the most effective program at improving the lives of Indigenous people on reserves has been the Liberals’ Canada Child Benefit introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016 — a universal program that helps all Canadian families, except for those in the highest income brackets.
That raises the question of where all of the other federal money being spent specifically on Indigenous issues is going, Flanagan said.
