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Government of Manitoba cancels self-government negotiations

April 17, 2019

The Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) – MMF received a letter from the Pallister government cancelling the province’s support for self-government negotiations between Manitoba, Canada, and the MMF. This cancellation is one of several such notices sent from the province in the last year to the Manitoba Métis Government, the MMF. Since 1987, the Federal Government of Canada, the Province of Manitoba, and the Manitoba Métis Government have been working through the tripartite negotiation process. Pallister’s recent decision to cut the support represents a significant shift from the long-standing process that ensured an avenue for government-to-government conversations between the Manitoba Métis and the two levels of government. “They have no interest in the rights of the Métis People.

“They have no respect for the Métis Nation as rights-bearing Aboriginal People. There is no relationship between the province and the MMF”. MMF President David Chartrand