Government Commitments

Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation

Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework Cancelled

November 14, 2018

CBC – The Liberal government won’t be tabling legislation to create its promised Federal Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework this fall as previously planned. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett’s office, which has the lead on the file, issued a statement saying work would continue to develop the framework to enshrine Section 35 rights in the Constitution in federal law.