Tories transfer [Aboriginal] funding
The Conservative government is quietly dipping into the fund set aside to compensate victims of Indian residential schools and is using the money to fund new spending and to pay for cost overruns in its summer jobs program, The Gazette has learned.
But government officials could not say yesterday what - if any - effect the decision to use $82.6 million of the Indian Residential School Settlement Trust could have on its ability to administer the $1.9-billion fund and deliver cheques to thousands of survivors who have applied for compensation.
Whose getting robbed to pay Paul — again.
New security plan for Parliament Hill in the works
A new security plan is being developed in Ottawa that could greatly limit public access to Parliament, says a news report.
Go figure ‘eh…..
After all this time, after all the hardship and emotion and please and horror stories in the residential school saga, they go and do this.
That radical part of me is being radical again.