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Natives want shares of dividend OTTAWA - Now that the federal budget is virtually balanced, Canada's Aboriginal Peoples want the federal government to throw some money their way. "We've put a very strong argument that the best investment that Canada could make is in aboriginal people," Phil Fontaine, grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said Monday at a conference on native cross-border trade. "The pressure's on for tax cuts and that kind of thing. Well, tax cuts doesn't make much sense for First Nations People. We need some very direct invest­ (Continued on page 3)