Archive - Dec 23, 2007

"Uphold existing Aboriginal and treaty rights" - Senate committee tells Harper government

From the Final Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

39th Parliament – 2nd Session

December 2007

Summary of Recommendations

Recommendation 1

Programs and support for urban Aboriginals by government, nothing new for First Nations

From CBC ...

Mind shift or policy change? Government's new focus on off-reserve economic development nothing new for natives

KATHERINE WALKER - December 20, 2007

There is a "complete native mind shift" about to take place in Canada. At least that's how Maclean's magazine put it in a Sept. 3, 2007, article titled An aboriginal 'glasnost'. Other media have followed suit and run stories recently on this new trend.