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By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio Ottawa says it will work with Indigenous governments interested in exercising jurisdiction over child welfare after the Dene Nation requested direct funding to do so. A resolution put forward by the Dene Nation to directly receive transfer payments, rather than have Ottawa send the cash to the Northwest Territories government, passed at an Assembly of First Nations meeting this month. The resolution directed the AFN to call on Ottawa to make the change. Currently, the federal government provides transfer payments to the territorial government to deliver things like healthcare and social services for N.W.T. residents. They are a major source of the GNWT\u2019s annual revenue. The Dene Nation previously told Cabin Radio it is engaged in early discussions with Dene leadership… <\/p>\n

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By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio Ottawa says it will work with Indigenous governments interested in exercising jurisdiction over child welfare after the Dene Nation requested direct funding to do so. A resolution put forward by the Dene Nation to directly receive transfer payments, rather than have Ottawa send the cash to the Northwest Territories government, passed at an Assembly of First Nations meeting this month. The resolution directed the AFN to call on Ottawa to make the change. Currently, the federal government provides transfer payments to the territorial government to deliver things like healthcare and social services for N.W.T. residents. They are a major source of the GNWT\u2019s annual revenue. The Dene Nation previously told Cabin Radio it is engaged in early discussions with Dene leadership... <\/p>\n

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