B.C.’s Cowichan Tribes received $1.3B in taxpayer funds since 2001

The Aristotle Foundation published a study which found the Cowichan Tribes have received $1.3 billion from taxpayers since the year 2001.

Cowichan Bay, BC: Wikimedia Commons

A new study found that the Cowichan Nation, which recently won its B.C. Supreme Court case regarding Aboriginal title over roughly 800 acres in Richmond, has received more than a billion dollars from those same government sources.

The Aristotle Foundation published a study on Monday, which tallied how much the Cowichan Tribes have received since the year 2001, when annual funding to the group came in at $37 million.