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February 15, 2018
Perhaps in keeping with its professed goal of reconciliation with Canada’s aboriginal people, the federal government chose Valentine’s Day to announce the creation of a new legal framework for the rights of indigenous peoples in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the government of Canada will develop, in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, a “Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework.”
The proposed framework would “include new measures to support the rebuilding of Indigenous nations and governments, and advance Indigenous self-determination, including the inherent right of self-government,” the prime minister’s office said in a press release.
Advocacy of indigenous self-government, and a new relationship between the Crown and Canada’s indigenous peoples, is not new. Douglas Sanderson, an associate professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, whose research areas include aboriginal and legal theory, says he wasn’t surprised by the announcement, following years of the government laying the groundwork for change through statements of principles and consultations. However, he notes that both the civil service and the public need to be prepared for any sweeping changes in legislation affecting indigenous peoples.
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