Working Together? First Nations Movements Respond to Liberal Government
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1670 ... September 20, 2018
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Working Together? First Nations Movements Respond to Liberal Government
Defenders of the Land, Truth Campaign and Idle No More
Statement on Recognition and Implementation of the Inherent and Treaty Rights of Indigenous Peoples Framework Legislation Engagement Document
This Fall, the Trudeau government is planning on unilaterally introducing into Parliament their "Federal Recognition and Implementation of the Inherent and Treaty Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada" legislation.
The "Framework" is a collection of federally imposed law and policy designed to terminate our pre-existing sovereignty and collective rights as Indigenous Nations and get our peoples to surrender to Crown sovereignty to essentially turn the original people into ethnic minorities.
The core of the planned federal "legislative framework" is to shift bands currently under the... Indian Act into "self-government" agreements, which the Trudeau government is falsely calling "self-determination."
If passed, this legislation will affect generations of our people and we haven’t had any say in the process or their plan! The Trudeau government is using federal legislation, policy and new 10-year funding agreements to force our people into new agreements that break our original relationship with our lands, territories and resources as Indigenous Nations.