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Originally Posted by rrskylar
Seems to me it’s mostly of a certain ethnicity falling through the cracks while their leadership touts self govt., urban reserves and yet completely ignores their bottom 10%!
Many of the reserves are bounded together in councils with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars yet never mention building homes for homeless populations or building shelters or providing much of anything to those who need it the most!
Take my post as you want
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Oh jesus come on man. This is just blatantly false. No council in MB has a budget in the hundreds of millions, I'd ask to see where you got those numbers but I know you pulled them out of your ass and I don't particularly want to see that.
I'm not sure why these racist old myths persist when you can go look at any First Nation's audited financial statements yourself.
https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/FN....aspx?lang=eng. And if you bothered to do that, or look at any of the tribal council sites, you would see that funding housing for their members is in fact one of the major things they spend that money on. But they only have enough for band-aid solutions.
I don't know why some people like yourself can't seem to grasp that First Nations need to actually pay for things with the money they have. Most of their money typically goes to healthcare costs (no surprise there, same as the rest of Canada). That includes a lot of flights to the city and hotel stays for parents or caregivers. Were you not aware they had to pay for that? Well now you are. The rest is spoken for providing all manner of other services, from education to policing to child & family services and so on.
I can't count how many times I've seen this attitude of "Oh I saw this reserve just got millions of dollars from the Feds, where did it all go??" Umm, it went to pay for services. Just like cities and towns. And we owe them that money fair and square. That was what we agreed to in exchange for basically taking the whole country from them, and it was a GREAT deal for the rest of us. You make a contract, you keep it, it's the law.