二战后，在原住民族群自主抗争和联邦政府赋权支持下，加拿大原住民在政治、经济、教育、文化及社会福利等方面的状况有了较大改善，但与主流社会相比仍存在较大差距，社会问题较为突出。为此，加拿大政府开始调整其原住民族群政策，对原住民社会支持体系进行变革，价值理念从“赋权补偿”转向“增能发展”，从个体、社区、社会三个层面构建原住民社会支持体系的增能路径，回应原住民族群的发展需求。
After a long struggle against colonial rule，Canada’s aboriginals were granted autonomy and empowering self-government by the federal government. Though the political，economic，educational，cultural and social welfare and other benefits of Canada’s aboriginal ethnic group was much improved after the second world war. But there is still a gulf between it and mainstream Canadian society and many acute social problems are mounting. So the Canada government has renewed social policy and improved social support system towards aboriginal ethnic group. There has been a shift in the core value of policy from self-government through empowerment to capacity building for sustainable development. The Canadian government is reconceptualizing its aboriginal social support system in three fundamental ways：individual，community，society，and integrating services in response to the needs of aboriginal ethnic groups.
