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The skyrocketing amount of federal taxpayers’ money being funnelled into government programs ostensibly designed to improve the lives of Canada’s Indigenous people, with little to show for it, is a national scandal.

GOLDSTEIN: Wasteful and ineffective, federal spending on Indigenous issues is out of control Back to video

One that never gets addressed despite literally years of highly critical reports by the two independent, non-partisan financial watchdogs of federal taxpayers’ money — the auditor general and the parliamentary budget officer.

In a report released Tuesday the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute estimated that during the Justin Trudeau era from 2015 to early 2025, inflation-adjusted federal spending on Indigenous issues exploded from $10.3 billion to $40.8 billion annually.

That was seven times faster than the rate of overall federal spending during that period and excludes the additional costs to taxpayers of Indigenous lawsuits and court........

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