National Aboriginal Economic Development Board: Aboriginal Peoples

Chief Clarence Louie Dept: The government-commissioned report is meant to set a baseline to compare aboriginal and non-aboriginal standards of living in the future, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "While many will find these targets ambitious, the board believes that concerted efforts by all parties will make them attainable," says Chief Clarence Louie, chairman of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board in his introduction to the report and oTTAWA - A new federal report that probes the quality of life among Canada's aboriginal peoples shows the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal is glaring but not quite as bad as it used to be. It also sets out a range of goals to get rid of the gap completely, within 10 years targets even the report's chairman says are on the "bold" side. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.