CALGARY—If policymakers want to help improve living standards in Indigenous communities, particularly in remote areas of Canada, they should help foster the construction of roads and other infrastructure between these struggling communities and larger population centres—not simply spend more money on government programs, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “A constant flood of money from Ottawa has failed to solve the problems plaguing small remote First Nation communities yet the federal government continues to increase federal spending on Indigenous programs without material reforms,” said Tom Flanagan, Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of Promise and Performance: Recent Trends in Government Expenditures on Indigenous Peoples.

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