Madam Chair, to distinguish this from other changes that may appear with similar wording, I'd like to stress that this alteration in my amendment, to include the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, occurs in the all-important proposed section 3, which sets out the rights of the indigenous peoples of Canada.
The current proposed section reads:
For greater certainty, nothing in this Act is to be construed as abrogating or derogating from the protection provided for the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Canada by the recognition and affirmation of those rights in section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
My amendment adds “and in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”