Mr. Speaker, for 70 years, friendship centres have served as vital community hubs for urban indigenous people. Now they are on the front line of Canada's mental health crisis, the toxic drug crisis and catastrophic climate events like floods and forest fires, but federal funding has not kept up. The National Association of Friendship Centres is clear in that it needs $62 million of federal funding annually to meet demands.
The Liberals keep letting indigenous people down with their chronic underfunding. Will the government finally provide friendship centres with long-term, sustainable funding?