That question highlights a gap in my presentation when I spoke about our international obligations through the climate accord or through the ILO. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is something we have signed on to internationally; that we have committed to, at least rhetorically, at the federal level. We have, however, signed treaties that will not allow us to fully enact the rhetorical responsibility we have agreed to.
I have worked with Pam Palmater on trade agreements, and what she says is that we need to have indigenous representation at the bargaining table to fully realize UNDRIP and trading rights. We are so far from that in trade deals that what we have right now absolutely contravenes UNDRIP.