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That's when Maynard Sonntag, Saskatchewan's minister of First Nations and Métis Relations, announced that the province would be restoring its funding to the Métis organization, which hasn't received a cent of provincial money to cover its operating costs since Sonntag put a freeze on funding on June 17, 2004.
The provincial government will be providing the MNS with $385,000 to cover the cost of basic operations, as well as policy and research functions. Sonntag said he believes some of the federal funding has also been restored, but wasn't sure what amount had been recommitted to the MNS and what amount was still being held back. The funding that was frozen was money used to fund MNS activities, such as day-to-day operations of the MNS office, but funding for programs run by the organization weren't affected by the freeze.See the full content of this document
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Province Restores Mns Funding
The staff and executive of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS) had reason to celebrate on Oct. 4, when the organization's three-year funding drought officially came to...
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