Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Emergency Debate to save the Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Libby Davies, NDP MP
The NDP called an emergency debate to reinstate funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundationon (AHF) before it runs out on March 31. The AHF delivers 135 projects across Canada to support tens of thousands of residential school survivors. Without alerting the AHF, the Conservative government did not include funding for the Foundation in the 2010 federal budget tabled on March 4th.
EMERGENCY DEBATE
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
HANSARD
MARCH 30, 2010
Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP):
Harper must extend funding to Aboriginal Healing Foundation: Ashton
NDP
OTTAWA – New Democrat MP Niki Ashton (Churchill) is making a last-minute appeal directly to the Prime Minister to extend the funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
"The Aboriginal Healing Foundation has given healing and hope to survivors, their families and their communities for ten years but the need for healing is not over,” says Ashton. “We are appealing to the Prime Minister to save the Aboriginal Healing Foundation."
The AHF provide resources which promote reconciliation and encourage and support Aboriginal people and their communities in building and reinforcing sustainable healing processes that address the legacy of physical, sexual, mental, cultural, and spiritual abuses in the residential school system, including intergenerational impacts.
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