Sunday Free Education However, Canada is undermining its own constitution, laws, policies and legal obligations to First Nations, which the former federal Liberal government agreed to under the leadership of Prime Minister Jean Chretien. We feel that Canadian taxpayers dollars are being wasted by fighting First Nation governments who have sovereign authority as outlined by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). Justice Binnie of the SCC on Aboriginal rights of self-government stated that: “ What is significant is that the Royal Commission itself sees Aboriginal Peoples as full participants with non-aboriginal peoples in a shared Canadian sovereignty. Aboriginal Peoples do not stand in the opposition to, nor are they subjugated by, Canadian sovereignty. They are a part of it.”
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:28:03 +0000
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