As the federal government was announcing a nearly $900 million investment in Saskatchewan infrastructure spending over the next 10 years, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Executive called for an increase in First Nations infrastructure spending. Vice Chief David Pratt says, “Our families and communities continue to struggle with poverty, lack of adequate housing and overcrowding issues, access to clean drinking water, equitable schools, and roads that are on par with the rest of the province.”
FSIN Calls for Infrastructure Funding
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
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