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1. More spending on Indigenous communities won’t solve chronic problems

   Appeared in the National Post, January 26, 2021 From the fiscal crisis of the mid-1990s to the end of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in 2015, federal spending on Indigenous programs grew at a compound annual rate of 2.5 per cent in inflation ...

2. Promise and Performance: Recent Trends in Government Expenditures on Indigenous Peoples

   If better-funded government programs were the answer to Indigenous poverty, we would have seen the results by now. Between 1981 and 2016, federal spending on Indigenous programming was multiplied by more than four times, yet the gap in the average ...

3. Trudeau government bill may grant First Nations veto power over pipelines and other projects

   Appeared in the National Post, December 19, 2020 Federal Minister of Justice David Lametti recently unveiled Bill C-15, whose purpose is to authorize a three-year plan for taking “all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent” ...

4. Squaring the Circle: Adopting UNDRIP in Canada

   The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. Its most controversial feature is a call for “free, prior, and informed consent” (FPIC) by Indigenous peoples before ...

5. Community capitalism flowering among some First Nations

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, November 21, 2017 We hear lots of bad news about Indigenous people in Canada, but we should not overlook the success stories. One such piece of good news is that community capitalism is flowering among First Nations who are ...

6. Bending the Curve: Recent Developments in Government Spending on First Nations

   How much money are governments spending on Indigenous peoples? How have these amounts been changing over time? How effective is the spending? This is the third in a series of Fraser Institute studies of these questions. This paper extends the previous ...