Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Responses to Bill C-29"

Bill C-29 gets mixed reviews from leaders as House of Commons committee begins study CBC – Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says it’s “very concerning” that the federal Crown-Indigenous Relations minister would get to appoint the majority of the proposed national council for reconciliation’s first board of directors. Archibald, testifying with other...

OTTAWA – The President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), Carol McBride, appeared today before the House of Common’s Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAN) to demand that her organization be given a say in the composition of a new council on reconciliation.  INAN is studying Bill C-29, the National Council for Reconciliation...