Mandate letter results so far: Ministers Carolyn Bennett and Jane Philpott
OTTAWA — INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Accomplished
The 2016 budget committed $8.4 billion over five years aimed at education, housing and other commitments in the mandate letter given to Carolyn Bennett, originally named minister of Indigenous affairs. The Liberal government did lift the two-per-cent cap on annual funding increases for First Nations on-reserve programming, but it did not happen immediately as Trudeau had promised. Bennett also worked to set up the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Working on it