'We're here trying to do what we can': The organization advocates on behalf of Indigenous women and girls as well as two-spirit, transgender and gender-diverse people
OTTAWA — The Native Women's Association of Canada says it has been forced to lay off roughly half its workforce due to a major shortfall in federal funding.
"We have a genocide on our hands in Canada. It's daunting every single day," chief executive Lynne Groulx said in an interview Wednesday. The organization also had to make cuts at all levels of management and cut back on phone services as well in order to keep operations going. As a result, said Groulx, those operations won't have the same capacity as previous years.
President Carol McBride said in a release Thursday that until that happens, their "financial hands are tied" as they do not have enough money to sustain current operations. In the meantime, the association said, it has tried to bridge the gaps created between those short-term federal agreements by trying to grow businesses of its own.
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