This was one of our findings: that they weren't assessing whether the initiatives had met their intended outcomes.
At the outset, the departments at the community well-being index had a metric they would use to see whether the socio-economic gap between first nations communities and other Canadians had been closed. This is a metric that's done by Statistics Canada. While it's broken down between indigenous communities and other Canadian communities, it was last issued in 2021.
It's been seven years—