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First Nations urge Canada to Choose Partnership over Paternalism in Federal Budget by Enacting Collaborative Funding Model to Close the Infrastructure Gap

First Nations urge Canada to Choose Partnership over Paternalism in Federal Budget by Enacting Collaborative Funding Model to Close the Infrastructure Gap

First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA) is urging Canada to embrace a new and innovative method of funding Indigenous infrastructure based on partnership rather than paternalism to keep its promise to bridge the infrastructure gap between First Nations and the rest of Canada by 2030. "The federal model for funding infrastructure has failed to deliver the housing, clean water and other critical infrastructure that will improve the living conditions in First Nations communities," said FNFA President and CEO Ernie Daniels. "We believe there is a better way, a way that works with First Nations as partners rather than the colonial approach that's rooted in the almost 150-year-old Indian Act."