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  1. Fiscal Explosion: Federal Spending on Indigenous Programs, 2015–2022

    Previous studies published by Fraser Institute have documented the remarkable long-term rise in federal spending on Indigenous programs since the end of World War II. Since the election of the Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in ...

  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. Gaining Ground, Losing Ground: First Nations' Community Well-Being in the 21st Century

    In May 2019, the Government of Canada released the tables for the Community Well-Being Index (CWB) based on the 2016 census. This provides an opportunity to revisit the issue of First Nations’ standard of living and quality of life. Some First Nations ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...