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Data gleaned from federal archives and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada shows that spending per registered First Nations person jumped to $9,056 per person by 2012 from $922 in 1950 (the figures are adjusted for inflation so this is an apple-apple comparison).
Together, these ten (2% of the total sample) earned $531.5 million in OSR, or 18% of the total earned by all 500 First Nations. The top five First Nations, the highest 1% of the sample, generated $329.2 million in OSR, about 11.1% of the total.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Between 1981 and 2016, the latest year for comparable data, Ottawa multiplied total federal spending on Indigenous programming by more than four times yet the gap between First Nations and other Canadian communities in the average Community Well-Being Index, which measures the well-being of individual Canadian communities, barely budged.
- What Revenue Sources Do First Nations have?
- Why Does The Federal Government Fund First Nations?
- How Does The Government Fund First Nations?
- Has Funding Kept Pace with Population Growth?
- How Do First Nations' Earn Own-Source Revenue?
- Do First Nations Collect Taxes?
- What Happens When Outside Corporations Develop Resources on Aboriginal Land?
The biggest revenue source is transfers from the federal government, but First Nations are increasingly generating what's called "own-source revenue." The communities also get revenue from land claims settlements and successful lawsuits, selling treaty land and a small amount from other levels of government. For the 50,000 Inuit in the Canadian nor...
In 1867, the British North America Act made "Indians and lands reserved for the Indians" an exclusive federal jurisdiction, making the federal government responsible for providing programs and services that most communities in Canada receive from provincial and municipal levels of government. These include education, health and social services, roa...
The primary method to fund services is through what's called "contribution agreements." The agreements are renewed annually, although not always on time. As stated in the auditor general's report, that means "First Nations must often reallocate funds from elsewhere to continue meeting community service requirements." That report also says that "whi...
The aboriginal population appears to be increasing at a significantly faster rate than the total population. Between Statistics Canada's 1996 and 2006 census, the total aboriginal population increased 45 per cent (29 per cent for First Nations), compared to an eight per cent increase in the non-aboriginal population. Documents for the last three bu...
In 1876, the Indian Act gave the government control of Indian economic and resource development and land use. They became what Calla calls "wards of Canada," which didn't allow them to engage in economic development. Only in the last few decades has there been any significant change in that arrangement. Now that they are able to do so, many First N...
In 1988, amendments to the Indian Act empowered First Nations with their own tax authority and today, according to Wilson, about one-sixth of bands collect taxes. For those bands, Calla estimates that one-tenth to one-third of their total revenue comes from property taxes and, less frequently, sales taxes but notes that those revenues come with ser...
Often there's a lawsuit, and 90 per cent of the time, the Aboriginal group wins, according to Bill Gallagher, a lawyer who worked for the federal government as a treaty land entitlement officer on the Prairies. He later worked for Inco in the protracted negotiations over the Voisey's Bay project in Labrador. Gallagher says aboriginal groups have re...
Feb 20, 2013 · First Nation governments spend much more per capita than the other governments in Canada, the result of administering programs and services that are normally provided by federal, provincial and...
Spending grew more significantly in recent years compared to earlier in the same decade. As Figure 3-1 indicates, between 2012-2013 and 2015-2016, health spending increased in real terms by an average of 6.8 per cent per year. Since 2016-2017, it increased by an average of 10.6 per cent per year.
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Saskatchewan’s Black Lake Band, for instance, was found by auditors to have spent $403,651 – half of its audited spending – in a manner that was “not in compliance” with the rules for federal transfers.
