Too much Money on Native Issues?

[Goober]

Are we spending too much money on First Nation Issues?

Where Your Tax Dollar Goes - 2004-05 - report without charts

With over $6 billion in transfers for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples (bringing total federal spending in this area to some $9 billion, not including anything the provinces might kick in annually. There are approximately 733,626 first nations people in Canada. This makes the amount per first nations man, woman, and child, about $12,267.00, or $49,068.00 tax free, for a family of four. I know the native people don't get this money but it is being spent/wasted, squandered, on their behalf.

Does anyone else think this kind of spending on one group of people is extreme?

Juan- This is just a freaking FN hate Thread- You are poorly informed. Next time try to post something that is sensible. With credible links- And accurate information. Fuk me. What a waste of bandwidth.

 

[shadowshiv]

Juan- This is just a freaking FN hate Thread- You are poorly informed. Next time try to post something that is sensible. With credible links- And accurate information. Fuk me. What a waste of bandwidth.

Juan's last post in this thread was in 2006(the thread was recently necroed by a new poster), which was over 6 years ago.

 

[JLM]

Are we spending too much money on First Nation Issues?

Where Your Tax Dollar Goes - 2004-05 - report without charts

With over $6 billion in transfers for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples (bringing total federal spending in this area to some $9 billion, not including anything the provinces might kick in annually. There are approximately 733,626 first nations people in Canada. This makes the amount per first nations man, woman, and child, about $12,267.00, or $49,068.00 tax free, for a family of four. I know the native people don't get this money but it is being spent/wasted, squandered, on their behalf.

Does anyone else think this kind of spending on one group of people is extreme?

One way to get a sense of propriety on this would be to total up the annual budgets of the Federal and provincial governments for a year and divide it by the total population. We might find it's not too much different. But of course getting the true figures might be like pulling teeth out of an elephant!