It’s Time for Struggling Remote First Nations to Opt for the ‘Smallwood Solution’

Joey Smallwood signs the agreement which brought Newfoundland into Canada on Dec. 11, 1948. Public Domain

Commentary

A whopping $875,000 for every indigenous man, woman and child living in a rural First Nations community. That is approximately what Canadian taxpayers will have to pay if a report commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is accepted.