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1. Government Spending and Own-Source Revenue for Canada's Aboriginals: A Comparative Analysis

   With average unemployment rates on reserve above 20% and graduation rates below 40%, there is a clear gap in outcomes between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals in Canada. This is sometimes blamed on funding disparities. This study provides a fact-based ...

2. Federal government rewards chiefs, First Nations bands for lack of transparency

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, December 28, 2015 On Friday, the federal government chose to lift sanctions and restore salaries for the 43 First Nation chiefs that were not complying with the First Nations Transparency Act and withholding basic financial ...

3. Democracy in First Nations communities requires an informed electorate

   In a letter to Richard Price in 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote "whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to ...