Aboriginal Affairs $1B spending shortfall

[Smallc]

Maybe in the 1970's people thought watching "Beachcombers" would connect people but we have come a long way since then.

Imagine what they could do with over $900M per year of extra funding for communications infrastructure in remote areas.

[msj]

Exactly.

[eyeball]

The OP is reported by CBC which has been accused of reporting with a bias towards FN. Getting rid of the CBC would get rid of this bias.

Didn't you say that native people would stand to benefit more by staying out of the public's eye?

Wouldn't your sleeping giant wake up faster and be even more pissed off at the greedy needy natives faster with the CBC rubbing their biases in Canada's nose?

[bush_cheney2004]

What was the government funded CBC doing during this entire time ? Was unspent FN allocations met with equally indifferent investigation and reporting by the CBC ? Who knew...and when did they know it ?

[On Guard for Thee]

What was the government funded CBC doing during this entire time ? Was unspent FN allocations met with equally indifferent investigation and reporting by the CBC ? Who knew...and when did they know it ?

Thanks to CBC we all know it.

[bush_cheney2004]

APTN > CBC....and a lot less expensive.

No wonder it took until the1990's to fund a national "aboriginal" network...unspent allocations....and the CBC wasting billion$ .

[On Guard for Thee]

APTN > CBC....and a lot less expensive.

No wonder it took until the1990's to fund a national "aboriginal" network...unspent allocations....and the CBC wasting billion$ .

I guess you prefer faux news.

[poochy]

It is essential for remote communities.

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Nope. It's called the internet, and they have it.

[poochy]

Thanks to CBC we all know it

Thank goodness the CBC is available to reinforce your bias, it's not like they have a habit of reporting anything that can be construed as negative towards the government, it's not as though the CBC might have a bias considering the funding cuts. Now tell us about the conservative controlled board, I here they were able to get rid of all of the obviously left leaning producers and journalists and replace them with old, white conservative men, just watch the news network for proof. There are literally no women, no women of color, and all of the men are old and white, they sure showed the progressives who is boss.

[Accountability Now]

Didn't you say that native people would stand to benefit more by staying out of the public's eye?

Wouldn't your sleeping giant wake up faster and be even more pissed off at the greedy needy natives faster with the CBC rubbing their biases in Canada's nose?

I did say that and I do believe it to be true. However natives don't feel that way. They think they need to disrupt the whole world in order to get their way. Maybe they do in a sense to make the government react but they will go too far and start pissing off the general public which I think started to happen with the Idle No More rallies. They keep blocking development and people are really going to turn.

[jacee]

Imagine what they could do with over $900M per year of extra funding for communications infrastructure in remote areas.

That's not what that money was allocated for.

But Internet connectivity is definitely needed.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/fast-affordable-internet-the-north-is-still-waiting/article15855643/?service=mobile

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Edited June 8, 2015 by jacee

[On Guard for Thee]

Thank goodness the CBC is available to reinforce your bias, it's not like they have a habit of reporting anything that can be construed as negative towards the government, it's not as though the CBC might have a bias considering the funding cuts. Now tell us about the conservative controlled board, I here they were able to get rid of all of the obviously left leaning producers and journalists and replace them with old, white conservative men, just watch the news network for proof. There are literally no women, no women of color, and all of the men are old and white, they sure showed the progressives who is boss.

Good god, are you serious...

[Smallc]

That's not what that money was allocated for.

But Internet connectivity is definitely needed.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/fast-affordable-internet-the-north-is-still-waiting/article15855643/?service=mobile

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I'm talking about the money from your essential CBC. Try to follow.

[cybercoma]

Funding for what?

Reserve funding...you know...for reserves.

[cybercoma]

If this isn't trolling, I don't know what the hell is.

"Report it so we can ignore it." [/charles_anthony]

[cybercoma]

Budgets are about allocating resources.

The government takes $1 billion each year (ok less than that) and gives it to the CBC.

The CBC is not needed in this day and age with perhaps the exception of a few remote places (and even then I doubt most people give a fig).

The CBC reports on FN's stories ad nauseum compared to the MSM and then report this train wreck of "oh, the FN's aren't getting their money" when it is a simple case of the FN's not spending the money fast enough so it rolls into the next year and this often happens year over year over year.

So, take CBC money and give it to the "needy" FN's.

Guess what? They still won't spend it fast enough but at least we won't be wasting money on the CBC.

Meanwhile, the Liberals were able to run surpluses while funding both Aboriginal Affairs and the CBC. Funny that Canada's "great" economists at the CPC can't figure out how to do that.

[bush_cheney2004]

The CBC wants all that reserve funding...so it can ignore 50 more years of "genocide".

[cybercoma]

The CBC wants all that reserve funding...so it can ignore 50 more years of "genocide".

Hook.

[Shady]

Reserve funding...you know...for reserves.

What specifically? What projects? Do you know the process?

[Keepitsimple]

Meanwhile, the Liberals were able to run surpluses while funding both Aboriginal Affairs and the CBC. Funny that Canada's "great" economists at the CPC can't figure out how to do that.

Sorry to let more facts get in the way - but not only has Federal funding for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development largely increased since the Chretien years - but the provinces have hugely increased what they spend as well. Every once in a while it would be nice to hear you say "I didn't know that".

Link: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/publications/Aboriginal-spending-2013.pdf.pdf

[Argus]

I'm OK with downsizing the bureaucracy, but not funding for public services to people.

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Guess what? You downsize the bureaucracy you don't get the services. Governments of all political stripes like to say otherwise, but they all lie.,

Edited June 8, 2015 by Argus

[Bryan]

Guess what? You downsize the bureaucracy you don't get the services. Governments of all political stripes like to say otherwise, but they all lie.,

Generally not. The bureaucracy usually makes the services more expensive and less effective.

[msj]

Meanwhile, the Liberals were able to run surpluses while funding both Aboriginal Affairs and the CBC. Funny that Canada's "great" economists at the CPC can't figure out how to do that.

I agree.

The CPC have done a terrible job fiscally.

But that's largely because the people like a lower GST.

Now if they were to eliminate the CBC and move those funds over to AANDC then that would be an improvement in fiscal management.

[On Guard for Thee]

I agree.

The CPC have done a terrible job fiscally.

But that's largely because the people like a lower GST.

Now if they were to eliminate the CBC and move those funds over to AANDC then that would be an improvement in fiscal management.

Or even better, leave the CBC alone and take the hundreds of millions wasted on (how absurd) ads for their so called economic action plan during NHL games, and put it to an actual worthwhile use.

[Smallc]

Or even better, leave the CBC alone and take the hundreds of millions wasted on (how absurd) ads for their so called economic action plan during NHL games, and put it to an actual worthwhile use.

Or, take both things, and put them to better use.