Budget 2018 Highlights: Indigenous and Northern investments

Budget 2018 renews the Government of Canada's commitment to building a new relationship together with Indigenous peoples, based on recognition of rights, respect, cooperation, and partnership. It builds on significant investments of $11.8 billion in the previous two budgets and takes further steps towards reconciliation by investing in priority areas identified by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation partners.

• Clean and safe drinking water: $172.6 million over three years
• First Nations Child and Family Services: $1.449 billion over six years
• Support for distinctions-based housing strategies: this funding is provided through a combination of Budget 2017 and Budget 2018
  • First Nations on reserve: $600 million over three years
  • Inuit: $400 million over 10 years
  • Métis: $500 million over 10 years
• Indigenous health: keeping families healthy in their communities – $1.497 billion over five years
• Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program: incremental funding of $447 million over five years
• Helping Indigenous nations reconstitute: capacity development towards rebuilding nations – $101.5 million over five years
• Permanent bilateral mechanisms: Crown working together with Assembly of First Nations, Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee and the Métis Nation on shared priorities – $74.9 million over five years
• Improving access to the Canada Child Benefit and other benefits: $17.3 million over three years
• Métis post-secondary education: $10 million in 2018-19
• Eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat: $27.5 million over five years
• Indigenous research and data capacity: $7.6 million over five years
• Supporting Indigenous history and heritage: $23.9 million over five years
• Indigenous sports: to expand the use of sport for social development – $47.5 million over five years
• To support the expansion of the First Nation Land Management Act: $143.5 million over five years
• Increased health supports for survivors of Indian Residential Schools and their families: $248.6 million over 3 years
• Polar Knowledge Canada: strengthening Arctic science and innovation – $20.6 million over four years
• To support reconciliation initiatives through the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund: $5 million in 2018–19

Date modified:

2018-03-26