Thursday, March 24, 2016

SKILLS & EMPLOYMENT TRAINING FOR FIRST NATIONS

With a growing and young Aboriginal population in Canada, surely a substantial portion of the $8.4 billion in the federal budget designated for Aboriginal people over the next five years will go towards skills training for that 15 to 24-plus aboriginal cohort, right? Wrong. It turns out only 0.2 per cent (or $15 million) of the $8.4 billion is earmarked for skills and employment training for Aboriginal Canadians. Liberal priorities: over the next five years aboriginal political and regional organizations will receive $96 million to “engage with the government.”
 

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