APTN National News Reports the Harper Government

APTN NATIONAL NEWS REPORTS THE HARPER GOVERNMENT

has cut $60 million from Aboriginal organizations’ core and project funding over three years, with Inuit groups hit the hardest.

The news organization had obtained a copy of an Assembly of First Nations analysis based on federal numbers as of Jan. 7. “First Nations organizations absorbed 65.5 per cent worth of cuts… Métis organizations saw cuts of 39 per cent, non-status Indian organizations 14 per cent and women’s organizations were hit with a seven per cent cut.” But Inuit organizations got hit with 71 per cent cuts.