Manitoba’s First Nations leaders are weighing in on the federal government’s latest budget, offering a range of perspectives on what it delivers for Indigenous communities and what they’re concerned may have been left out.

Across Manitoba, Indigenous leaders say it amounts to a cut compared to last year, and has the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs calling for amendments before the November 17 vote.

“This country is based off of treaties, and we as First Nations are going to be at the table, and if Canada doesn’t recognize this, they will continue to see legal challenges across the Country and be in a bigger deficit than they are today,” said Grand Chief Kyra Wilson, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Grand Chief Jerry Daniels, Southern Chiefs’ Organization, said, “It’s, I think being called an Au

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