Arnold Viersen at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On March 23rd, 2021. See this statement in context.

March 23rd, 2021 / 12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Arnold Viersen Conservative Peace River—Westlock, AB

That's the second part of the bill. The bill does two things.

The first part is just declaring that UNDRIP has “application in Canadian law”. The second part is providing a framework to engage the Government of Canada in the “implementation of the Declaration”, and nobody has a problem with that.

It's the weird statement about making UNDRIP have “application in Canadian law”. What does that mean? Does that mean that the court decisions that have been hard won and fought for over the past are now moot if UNDRIP says something different? What does that mean?

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