Mr. Romeo Saganash at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

I do not. For a long time, the chairperson of the working group on indigenous populations would repeat at every session of negotiations that “this declaration does not create new rights”, that it just confirms inherent rights of indigenous peoples, the pre-existing rights of indigenous peoples.

I think this question is not relevant in my mind, because both Bill C-15 and the UN declaration reaffirm that these are pre-existing and inherent rights.