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The Canada Revenue Agency in an internal memo said it feared its own employees would help misappropriate pandemic relief money. The memo identified a “moderate” likelihood of misappropriation under one of the costliest pandemic relief programs, the $83.6 billion Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: “Money has just been going out the door.”
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— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) June 28, 2021
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For those who accuse Canada of being a racist country as we approach our 154th birthday on Thursday, a racist country would not be spending $24.5 billion this year alone to improve the lives of Canada’s First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
That should be more than enough money to deliver clean water to all Indigenous reserves. ...
The problem isn’t a lack of money, it’s that the money isn’t getting to the people it’s supposed to help.
In her April budget, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said an “historic new investment” of $18 billion over the next five years to improve the lives of Indigenous Canadians, was proof of how much the Trudeau government values its relationship with them.
She said the Liberals have increased spending on Indigenous programs every year since coming to power in 2015, leading up to this year’s $24.5 billion — 87% more than the historical rate of spending on these issues.
But no amount of money will address what Canada’s late auditor general Michael Ferguson described as the “incomprehensible failure” to close the socio-economic gap between Canada’s Indigenous people and other Canadians in a series of reports from 2016 to 2018.
Ferguson said part of the problem was mismanagement by some Indigenous leaders and provincial governments. ...
Instead, Ferguson found programs “are managed to accommodate the people running them rather than the people receiving the services … the focus is on measuring what civil servants are doing rather than how well” Indigenous Canadians, and all Canadians, are being served by this spending.
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