OTTAWA — The Privy Council Office has given the Trudeau government what amounts to an incomplete mark when it comes to meeting objectives the Liberals set for themselves on indigenous and northern affairs, the National Post has learned. The Post has spoken to Liberal political staffers from different departments over the past several weeks about the challenge of meeting the government’s commitments on the indigenous and northern affairs file. Many Conservative political staffers who had to work with that department over the past decade have often said the same thing. Even the auditor general, Michael Ferguson, in his most recent report to Parliament, complained specifically about a long history of inaction and indifference at the department of indigenous and northern affairs. Barber attended the past three cabinet retreats but he is not in Calgary this week, a spokesperson for Trudeau said.

Source: National Post January 23, 2017 23:09 UTC