Die Bundesausgaben für indigene Kanadier werden aufgrund von 300.000 potenziellen neuen Registranten bald in die Höhe schnellen; Allein die gesundheitlichen Vorteile könnten eine weitere Milliarde Dollar kosten
Federal spending on Indigenous Canadians is about to soar due to 300,000 potential new registrants
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**In Brief:**
* Bill S-2, aiming to amend the Indian Act, is poised to significantly increase the number of registered Indigenous Canadians by removing the “second-generation cutoff.”
* This change, which allows “Indian” status to be transmitted indefinitely as long as one parent is registered, is projected to add approximately 300,000 individuals by 2066.
* While intended to promote equality and reconciliation, this move creates significant fiscal challenges due to associated benefits like tax-free on-reserve work and health programs, costing nearly a billion dollars annually.
Even most indigenous community pages im part of don’t want this.
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This is absolutely insane. What does the author mean by “about to soar”?
Federal spending on Indigenous related initiatives has already soared since pre-Trudeau years.
Considering only the TWO MAIN DEPARTMENTS, indigenous spending was about $63 billion and accounted for ~12.3 % of total federal spend.
Early 2010s was around 3–4% of the federal budget.
When is it enough? Once we hit 25%? 40%?
This stupid Government did the same for citizenship
You could have had a direct ancestor here in the 1700’s. If you can prove lineage you can now get Canadian citizenship.
So now you got all these Americans who probably couldn’t find Canada on a map claiming citizenship
So now you have Americans claiming citizenship and bringing up their entire families to sponsor . All able to
get benefits, healthcare etc . All without contributing one cent in taxes
Yup we are one fucked country
You can thank the Liberals for that
These communities need oversight, not more funds. The rampant corruption in tribal governments is where all their funding drains out and why they have (in some cases) awful living conditions.
I don’t understand the health benefits reference, aren’t we all covered by our provincial plans?
This bill S-2 sounds like yet another terrible Liberal idea.
We spend more on 1% of the population than we do on the military to protect these same people from Trump and buddies. The First Nation hegemony.
Invest in reducing fraud and waste and you’ll see more of that money actually reach the people it’s intended for
For more drug overdose states of health emergencies
Good old Tom Flanagan, never losing an opportunity to try and whip up anger against Indigenous people in Canada. He has been nothing but consistent for many decades now.
Let’s just take one sentence of this opinion piece to show how he misinforms his own readers:
„However, Bill S-2 was radically amended in the Senate committee, and those amendments were accepted in the version now introduced into the House of Commons.“
Tom Flanagan was Chief of Staff to Stephen Harper and knows how the legislative process works, which makes this misinformation even more disgusting.
The Senate amended the bill, but no such amendments were „accepted“ in the House of Commons. The House of Commons always introduces bills in the same form they are adopted in the Senate. Since then, the bill has not yet been debated for a single second in the House of Commons.
As the bill goes through the House and Committee, MPs will have an opportunity to amend the bill themselves, including reversing the amendments adopted by the Senate. If that happens, then a back and forth between both Chambers will occur until both can agree on a bill.
Not only has the House not even had the opportunity to „accept“ anything the Senate has done, but both the government representative in the Senate and the Minister have indicated their opposition to the amendments adopted by the Senate.
But it’s just another instance of Tom Flanagan not letting facts and truth get in the way of finding new ways of whipping up anger against Indigenous people.
What about he billionaires that aren’t paying their fair share. That’s in the double digits of billions
The Canada Spends has some great infographics of the soaring spending. According to Canada Spends, the total spend of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) & Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) was **$63 billion in FY2024** according to the March 2025 financial update.
https://canadaspends.com/en/spending/indigenous-services-and-northern-affairs
They also have infographics for British Columbia. The Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation spent $297.8 million in FY2024-25. That’s more than the Ministry of Environment & Parks. Almost all of that funding, $230.3 million, is going to „Non Treaty Funding“, so not even being used to resolve land claims or negotiation settlements.
https://canadaspends.com/en/british-columbia
There are also infographics for the federal Specific Claims program. The Liberals in 2019~2022 made a number of significant changes, most notably issuing a practice directive to Department of Justice lawyers and negotiators to prioritize negotiation and settlement. This has resulted in the number of claims being resolved going way up, the settlement amounts going way up, and the number of new claims going way up.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/specific-claims-out-control-program
But his speech at Davos was so amazing. /s
There are so many people who are 1/4th or less indigenous absolutely gaming this system and reaping its benefits. They can be white passing when it benefits, and also indigenous when it matters.
How much more money will fix their issues?! Does anything improve? Or we just send money and talk about how much we support them?!
About time we start giving some cash to them !
/s
Bring on the uneducated and racist comments, here we go. Historical issues with documentation around Indigenous status (not to mention the forced removal of Indigenous children to residential schools and during the 60s scoop where documentationwas destroyed or lost) has created this problem. Not to mention historical underfunding of Indigenous programs, inequitable access to services like health care in remote and northern First Nations and a lack in trust of government (rightfully so), all created these issues. This is correcting one of the many wrongs, and yes it will be costly. If you think Indigenous people in Canada are taking advantage, look in the rearview mirror and understand that we have been taking advantage of them for more than 200 years. Go visit a First Nation and ask yourself if you would be better off trading places.
Yayyyy throwing more handouts instead of actually fixing things for every Canadian.
Why is Carney in the picture considering this came from the Senate, where the Liberals don’t currently have a caucus in? In addition to this, all but two members (who abstained) of the Senate Conservative Party Caucus (which is directly affiliated with the federal party) voted for this according to the Senate [website](https://sencanada.ca/en/in-the-chamber/votes/details/680734/45-1) (Bill S-2).
why this government is so racist and discriminatory against certain groups?
What happens to the millions of dollars the tribes get each year?
What happened to the clean water Trudeau promised these people?
Seems like mismanagement from top to bottom.
More hand outs for aboriginals = more free time to protest any economic development in Canada.
In fiscal year 2023–24, the combined spending by the two main federal departments focused on Indigenous affairs — Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) — was approximately $62.8 billion. This represented about 12.3 % of total federal program spending.
As a rough reference, if this $62.8 billion were divided evenly among the ~1.8 million people who self-identify as Indigenous in Canada, it would be about $35,000 per person — though in reality the money funds programs and services, not direct cash payments.
We are so FUCKED! God this country is going to shit.
The black hole widens.
You will continue to pay and see no measured improvement or changes till the end of time.
And if you dare ask where the money is going or for a shred of accountability? You’re just a colonizer and racist.
I’m seeing a number of FN bands buying casinos lately. Seems they are self sufficient now, why are they still receiving funds?
Shouldn’t people have to vote on this? I mean if they agree with it? I thought Canada is democracy?