Focus on rising costs of Indigenous legal claims as Ottawa preps financial books

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The federal government's forthcoming annual public accounts will release a trove of numbers that will show how much more Ottawa expects to pay to settle billions of dollars in legal claims made by Indigenous Peoples and their communities.

 

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