Parliamentary committee’s report on violence against Indigenous women ‘sanitized’
APTN National News OTTAWA–The Conservative MPs on the House of Commons special committee on violence…
APTN National News OTTAWA–The Conservative MPs on the House of Commons special committee on violence…
The federal department of Aboriginal Affairs says faces a “high risk” it may not be able to manage expectations around consultation, internal documents show.
Facing rising legal costs, cuts to its budget, a booming Indigenous population and the federal Aboriginal Affairs department faces a “high risk” of a deteriorating relationship with First Nations that could lead to increased protests and potentially “violence,” internal department documents show.
Laureen Harper, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife, was in the audience for an Economic Club of Canada speech this past November when the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission called on the federal government to launch a national inquiry into the “national tragedy” of murdered and missing Indigenous women.
Opposition MPs pressed the Harper government during question period Thursday to call a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women.
The Harper government has again rejected a proposed open-pit gold and copper mine in British Columbia that threatened to destroy a lake sacred to the Tsilhqot’in nation.
The recently formed Senate Liberal caucus plans to discuss the ongoing issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women during its first open caucus meeting next month.
The federal Aboriginal Affairs department cut its specific claims research budget as part of on-going government-wide belt-tightening in a move that one senior British Columbia chief says is contributing to creating the same environment that produced the 1990 Oka crisis.
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations is wrapping up its winter legislative assembly.