Budget cuts will hinder native healing

by CBC — March 17, 2010


Aboriginal women and children will bear the brunt of federal budget cuts to native abuse healing services, warned a Montreal shelter director.

But if the federal government is serious about supporting aboriginal efforts to deal with the legacy of abuse in residential schools, it will reconsider the $350-million cuts, said Lou Ann Stacey, interim executive director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal.

The federal budget didn't renew funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, which since its inception in 1998 has financed community-based First Nations programs that address abuse suffered in Canada's residential school system.

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