Ending education inequality for First Nations is long overdue

Last week, the federal government announced new measures to help ensure that Indigenous students on reserves receive as much funding as students in provincial public schools. “It is simply not right,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, “that young people in Indigenous communities don’t have the same dollars spent on education that young people in provincial schools do.”
Funding equality for students on reserves is decades overdue.On Jan. 3, 1986, David Crombie,