Canada has unveiled a C$5bn (US $4.3bn; £2.4bn) programme to fight poverty in native communities, at the end of an unprecedented two-day summit. Prime Minister Paul Martin said gaps in wealth, health and education between aboriginal and other Canadians were "not acceptable in the 21st Century". Martin, provincial leaders and native groups have been debating the deal at the summit in British Columbia, according to a report of BBC. Canada's one million aboriginals make up 3.3% of the population. It follows a C$2bn pay-out to natives abused at residential schools, the report said.
