Government Commitments

Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation

Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Frwamework

November 14, 2018

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.