InFocus: First Nation education and Canadian citizenship
InFocus sharpens its lens on a new bill for First Nation education and overhauls to immigration.
InFocus sharpens its lens on a new bill for First Nation education and overhauls to immigration.
The federal government is offering little for education in the 2014-2015 federal budget, but has dangled a $1.9 billion carrot to get First Nations chiefs to support proposed legislation to govern the operation of on-reserve schools.
The proposed First Nation education bill partly unveiled this past Friday will still retain the “assimilating and paternalistic nature” of its previous incarnation, according to a Quebec First Nation education organization.
Calling it a “historic” announcement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday unveiled reworked and renamed proposed legislation for First Nations on-reserve education that comes with $1.9 billion in funding.
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The Saskatchewan government is trying to make up some of the shortfall in funding for Aboriginal education.