Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

Liberal parliamentary secretary says ‘esteemed’ Indigenous leaders led engagement on C-29 CBC News: The Canadian government says it’s unable to list the Indigenous communities that participated in the drafting of the proposed National Council for Reconciliation Act, because no such list exists. Bill C-29 would create an oversight body to monitor, report and make recommendations on the...

Bill C-29 gets mixed reviews from leaders as House of Commons committee begins study CBC – Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says it’s “very concerning” that the federal Crown-Indigenous Relations minister would get to appoint the majority of the proposed national council for reconciliation’s first board of directors. Archibald, testifying with other...

OTTAWA – The President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), Carol McBride, appeared today before the House of Common’s Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAN) to demand that her organization be given a say in the composition of a new council on reconciliation.  INAN is studying Bill C-29, the National Council for Reconciliation...

Lack of updates from the Federal Government on what’s happening to establish the National Council for Reconciliation. Since the Interim Board submitted their Final Report to Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett with detailed recommendations on June 12, 2018 there has been only two updates: Sept. 5, 2019 – One of the updates included in...

The Official website of the Federal Government: “Delivering on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action” stated that the content had been “Modified” when in fact not a single work had changed from the previous update posted on Sept, 5, 2019. Those updates, beginning on June 7 began just 11 days after the discovery...