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First Nations say Harperites demanding they sign fiscal agreements already revised to fit proposed legislation.   

The federal government is “blackmailing” First Nations into supporting its policies through revised funding contribution agreements and telling them to “take it or leave it,” say First Nations chiefs.

“The government through its contribution agreements is trying to get First Nations to sign onto [their policies] or else be cut from their funding,” said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta. 

Mr. Adam, who was in Ottawa last week with a group of Canadian and U.S. First Nations chiefs to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline going through their lands, told The Hill Times that the ACFN has refused to sign its contribution agreement worth more than $1-million because it doesn’t agree with the federal government’s omnibus budget implementation legislation and bills such as C-27, the Financial Accountability and Transparency of First Nations Bill….

See original story in The Hill Times

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