Indigenous Affairs Minister

• Survivors, leaders raise concerns about Ontario residential school burial search fund rollout

  Darlene Laforme, who was forced as a child to attend the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ont., said $20 million is still not enough.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2021
  
• ‘I am so excited’: Resilience Montreal day shelter to get permanent location near Cabot Square

  The Quebec government announced a $3 million investment that will allow Resilience Montreal to purchase a building near Cabot Square in downtown Montreal.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2021
  
• Advertisement
• Ottawa gives Manitoba chiefs money to study reforming child welfare system

  Carolyn Bennett is in Winnipeg to announce funding for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs to study how Child and Family Services can be overhauled.

  Canada

  Mar 27, 2017
• Advertisement
• Bellegarde urges indigenous people to lead fight against climate change

  The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations wants indigenous people to take the lead in the fight against climate change.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2016
• It will take a lifetime to fix First Nations housing: AFN regional chief

  New federal money for First Nations housing is welcome but will not solve a monumental shortage for at least a generation, an indigenous leader said Wednesday.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2016
• Indigenous affairs minister gets earful on visit to Attawapiskat

  A young man in the troubled First Nation of Attawapiskat asked the federal indigenous affairs minister on Monday why his community was living in Third World conditions while Canada is greeting refugees with open arms.

  Apr 18, 2016