04 Mar Aboriginal leaders offer a skeptical take on budget promises: Assembly of First Nations chief disappointed with education commitment (The Globe and Mail)
The federal budget promised funding for aboriginal health, skills training and counselling for residential-school survivors, as well as a small but significant amount to address the country’s missing women crisis. But it largely ignored the issue the Assembly of First Nations has made its No. 1 priority – education. AFN Chief Shawn Atleo, who made national education reform a major part of his platform when he was elected last year, is disappointed with the lack of commitment to aboriginal education… go to article