Federal Indigenous spending tripled from ~$11B in 2015 to over $32B annually by 2025.
Since 2014, nearly a quarter of a TRILLION dollars has been spent on Indigenous priorities.
$243 Billion.
Since the Liberals PAUSED First Nations Financial Transparency Act enforcement in 2015, there have been no penalties for non-disclosure.
Some First Nations have never filed or submitted an audit, others haven’t in over a decade.
Meanwhile, First Nations life expectancy plummeted.
In BC: it dropped 7.1 years (2015-2021), in Alberta, it’s down 7 years since 2015; now 19-year gap vs non-Indigenous.
The opioid crisis hit reserves hardest, reversing prior gains.
We have tens of billions poured in, accountability paused and yet outcomes are worse.
In addition to all of this spending, we are allowing major land claims, to which most of BC is subject to.
ALL OF KAMLOOPS, is under a land claim.
The courts allow for oral evidence to be submitted without any other proof. And oral evidence is equally weighted as physical evidence based on historical claims from ancestors.
And despite millions spent looking for mass graves, not a single one has been found, but when this is raised, Chiefs call for the resignation of politicians.
Canadians deserve truth, transparency and accountability.
We also deserve to not lose title to our homes and this era of secrecy, land claims and countless tens of billions of tax dollars going to a particular race for land claims based on oral testimony because, ancestor’s used to hunt and fish there.
It all needs to end. It’s not sustainable.