The federal government's new proposed spending plan falls short of addressing the needs of Indigenous people, says the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, which is decrying budget cuts to First Nations programming and what it says was a lack of consultation in drafting the budget in the first place.

"We are dealing with a budget … that doesn't make a lot of sense," Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra Wilson told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.

"The money that the federal government receives does come from the resources of First Nations," but "what we see continually every year is the government continues to make decisions … without the involvement or the participation of First Nations," said Wilson.

"I understand that we are in a very difficult time right now in response

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