Charlie Angus
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October 2015
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“The bureaucrats were accountable to their political masters, not accountable to the people whom they were overseeing. And putting it as bluntly as possible, no government ever won votes by spending money on Indians.”
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“[The federal government memo documents] imply a feeling of bureaucratic effrontery as though this child, who hovered between life and death, was some kind of chiseller to the taxpayer.”
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“Right-wing pundits continually framed First Nations issues as a drain on taxpayers when, in fact, Indigenous communities were presenting a major growth opportunity.”
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
― Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream