CANS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Transfer Payment, Main Source, Public Finance

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 200
• Professor: Marie Anne

Document Summary

Studies aboriginal peoples and aboriginal policy, but her main focus is to understand governments: how policy makers consider indigenous people. Indigenous communities in canada, particularly those defined geographically in a reserved community, are generally speaking much more poor, have many more problems than non-indigenous communities. Speaking to indigenous reserve-based communities, there is great variation: some face massive social, infrastructure, health problems, others are of a higher socio-economic level, with problems to the degree that other communities have. Infrastructure is bad: water quality, school system. Can"t make this assumption about someone"s intent: not enough resources, maybe they have the management capacity but they don"t have enough money. Social challenges are expensive to deal with: even with good management, it might not be enough to address the extent of the problems. If there isn"t enough money from the government, there probably isn"t enough revenue within the community to make up for this shortfall.