Current Problems: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation

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March 9, 2024


Brian Mulroney’s complicated relationship with Indigenous peoples in Canada

From laying the foundations of Nunavut to the Oka crisis, the former PM’s legacy was one of contradictions CBC News: The late Brian Mulroney’s legacy with Indigenous peoples in Canada is marked by its contradictions — failures remembered for their good intentions, successes accompanied by catastrophic disappointments.  The former prime minister is praised by some Indigenous leaders for creating a...

February 15, 2024


What does the duty to consult First Nations, Inuit and Métis mean?

And why some advocates say Canada needs to move from consultation to consent CBC Indigenous: You’ve probably heard the phrase duty to consult, or failure to consult, when it comes to governments and their relationships with First Nations, Inuit and Métis.  But what does it actually mean?  Stemming from three Supreme Court of Canada decisions in 2004...

January 1, 2024


Consulting Indigenous communities on critical minerals is key to net zero ambitions

PUBLISHED DECEMBER 31, 2023 UPDATED JANUARY 1, 2024 The Globe and Mail: Two years ago, First Nations leaders made clear what Canada must take to heart if it wants to be a global player in critical minerals and the energy transition: The only road to net zero runs through Indigenous lands. That is, any efforts to develop...

October 12, 2023


A need for action on reconciliation

NationTalk: Winnipeg Free Press – Each year, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation prompts us to take stock of the progress we are making, as a country, on the journey towards reconciliation. Often this progress — or the lack of it — is measured by counting how many of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s...

October 9, 2023


Wolastoqey chiefs slam Higgs, ready to work with new government should election be called

First Nations’ leaders criticize how provincial Department of Aboriginal Affairs has been ‘overhauled’ CBC Indigenous: Leaders of the six Wolastoqey nations in New Brunswick have issued an open letter slamming Premier Blaine Higgs’s government for how it has handled its duty to consult and have signaled their readiness to work with a new provincial leader, should a...

April 11, 2023


Western premiers blast Lametti for suggesting Ottawa might ‘look at’ provinces’ power over natural resources

Lametti told an AFN meeting he would examine calls to rescind Natural Resources Transfer Act CBC News: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and three western premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disassociate his government from comments made by his justice minister — who promised last week to “look at” a decades-old law that...

March 2, 2023


N.B. needs to improve Indigenous engagement: minister

NationTalk: Country 94.1 – New Brunswick needs to do a better job of engaging with Indigenous communities, according to one federal minister. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller made the comments during a news conference on Tuesday. Miller said he has heard directly from Indigenous communities about the expiration of tax-sharing agreements“. I don’t think it...

January 27, 2023


SCO Urges Prime Minister to Include First Nations Leaders in Health Meeting

NationTalk: ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB — Today, the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is calling on Prime Minister Trudeau and the Government of Canada to ensure that First Nations leaders are included in health discussions on February 7, 2023. “Health care systems are in crisis. They are not meeting the needs of First Nations people, and...

January 11, 2023


Higgs’s ‘new partnership’ plan highlights gulf in understanding with First Nations

Funding proposal tied to measurable targets, tax surrender at odds with Indigenous vision CBC News: To some First Nations chiefs in New Brunswick, the “new partnership” the Higgs government is offering them looks a lot like old-style paternalism The province’s proposal to replace the existing tax-sharing agreement is another example of the vast philosophical chasm...

November 21, 2021


25th Anniversay of the RCAP Final Report

Prime Minister’s Office – “25th anniversary of the final report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples”. The five-volume landmark document outlined 440 recommendations on Indigenous governance, nation rebuilding, lands and resources, treaties, economic development, and social policy, and called for the renewal of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and all orders of...

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