The Assembly of First Nations is calling out the federal government on an attempted end run to implement processes associated with the Rights, Recognition and Implementation Framework legislation, which was rejected by First Nations leaders in December 2018.
In a March 6 letter sent to Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, and copied to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, National Chief Perry Bellegarde wrote the assembly was “concerned... with recent statements that seem to indicate timelines and outcomes are being imposed on this important work… (and) that your government expects to ‘deliver a new rights-based policy’ to replace the Inherent Rights Policy and the Comprehensive Land Claims Policy by June 2019.”
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