Finance committee  Multi-year funding agreements, to which you refer, have been capped at an increase of approximately 2% per year, for the past 13 years. So, no, they do not accommodate any inflation, demographic shifts, which are massive in first nations communities, or general cost structure cha

Finance committee  The calculation was based upon all levels of revenue collected. Alberta is a special case because we have to compete with the provincial jurisdiction when it comes to education. It makes it very challenging to retain teachers and so on. To be accurate, that formula doesn't includ

Finance committee  Skipping to our third recommendation, we're looking to negotiate direct treaty-based funding agreements that create a government to government relationship between the crown of Canada and first nations governments, and appropriate arrangements thereto, without getting into the co

Finance committee  Good morning. I want to particularly thank the clerks for their assistance in bringing us here today. They were very diligent in helping me make the submission and coordinate our participation here today. From 1996 to 1997, direct transfers by the Department of Indian and North