Mr. Martin Reiher at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On November 30th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 30th, 2023 / 5:25 p.m.

Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs

Martin Reiher

Thank you for the question.

It is our assessment that the scope of these agreements and of the treaties that will be entered into will be limited to core governance, and therefore it's unlikely that it would affect.... The mere recognition of an indigenous government, as is done in this legislation, does not impact, in our view, the rights of other collectives, and if in the future the treaties have the potential to affect rights of other collectives, there will be a consultation on these treaties.

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