Ken Coates in Inside Policy: Canada should get used to wealthy First Nations – MacDonald Laurier

In the Feb. 2015 edition of Inside Policy, the magazine of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Ken Coates says First Nations are only going to get wealthier in the coming years – and the rest of Canada is just going to have to deal with it.

Impact and benefit agreements and resource revenue sharing arrangements in places like Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are already making Aboriginals richer, he says.

“While Canadians are remarkably sanguine about the often-remarkable wealth accruing to real estate speculators, chief executive officers, entrepreneurs and professional hockey players, they have no shortage of opinions about Aboriginal prosperity, which many imply is unfair and unjust”, writes Coates.

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