Regarding Bill S2 - Many Bands need reform on how they handle divorce, but that should come from within. The main reason it should not pass, as stated by Claude Gravelle, NDP/Chief Couchie, Nipissing FN: With respect to this legislation, I will read what Chief Couchie from Nipissing First Nation had to say. She emailed me some information about matrimonial homes last night. She said: There are some certainties that NFN would like to ensure. We already have our own Matrimonial Rights Property policy in place, that occured quite a few years ago around 2004. (I am concerned about) Will this new Bill have an impact on our Existing MRP Policy? When we enacted our MRP two matters were of precedent. 1. The safe guarding of the right to preserve for ever our Land. 2. In our Policy/Act the children if they have status own the family home and which ever parent is prepared to raise the children in the family home can do so. That means that if the mother is a non-native and the father is native, the mother, if she so wishes, can raise the kids in the family home. Chief Couchie continued: Implicit in the 2nd matter is that if this is a marriage of a Status man and a non Status women. It the non-Status women is going to raise the child or children then she has the right to live in the matrimony home. This woman can never gain control of the land of the house, both have to be transferred in the name of the child or children). Chief Couchie concluded: I do, and others at the Nation, worry that the Bill is just another tactic to take our land; our Homeland! This current government is trying in every way it can to under mine our Treaty and Inherent Rights. The Conservative government still views First Nation peoples as “a problem”. The Fundamental question is when will the government stop undermining our Rights and start to recognize that we have rights enshrined in Laws and Treaties. They should just change their plans and leave our lands and Rights alone. It would be even better if the government entered in to a truly respectful dialogue.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:37:27 +0000
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