Ottawa, provinces ready to commit to
native issues
Last Updated Tue, 22 Nov 2005
19:04:15 EST
CBC News
Ottawa and the provinces are preparing a
10-year plan t o provide First Nations people
with the same standard of education,
housing and economic development as
other Canadians.
The governments agree to finance new
housing both on and off reserves, as well
as new measures to give native
people access to mortgages.
The programs will be tailored to meet
specific needs.
For example, the immediate housing priority
for many Inuit is to renovate and build new
social housing units in the North.
"The federal government got out of the
social housing program in 1993 and have
never updated housing in the Arctic,"
said Josee Kusugak, president of the
national Inuit organization ITK.
But there is still no agreement on health care.
Provincial government sources say part of
the problem is that the federal government
hasn't delivered last year's promised $700
million for native health care and the
aboriginal groups themselves are at odds over
how the health funds should be divvied up.
WELL MR MARTIN IT'S been long overdue!!!!!
I am not native but these people are a part of
us here in canada.
The true Canadians
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