Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 43: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (43-44)

Funding for BC UNDRIP implementation missing from Provincial Budget

April 23, 2011

BC Assembly of First Nations: “Glaring omissions in the new provincial budget, including how monies will be spent on the BC Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act implementation, are cause for concern for First Nations in BC,” stated Regional Chief Terry Teegee. How much funding will be spent on the costly and critical work of alignment of laws with the UN Declaration, as directed in the Declaration Act, of which there remains no concrete process that we are aware of? Is BC making any investment in a provincial action plan to implement the Calls for Justice? Robert Phillips, FNS Political Executive