Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the biggest issue is fully implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, not domesticating it under Canada's law and not reducing it to something else. It is a full international law that needs to be implemented totally.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In 1910, our ancestral chiefs developed something called the Sir Wilfrid Laurier memorial. It already laid out a blueprint for us. It was based on coexistence and on sharing....50% of the resources. The other thing was that it had a relationship role in it. Our ancestral chiefs w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In 1973 Canada made a unilateral decision to split comprehensive and specific claims into two separate processes, which created more new barriers to justice and restitution for indigenous nations. I believe that was just to slow down the process. After that, we had justice at las

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Cathy. I think you have a bit of a history of our organization, so you know very well how our organizations are rooted. The union is rooted in our advancement of title rights and the protection of our land and water. We are definitely a non-treaty organization. The

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can answer part of it. I had my hand up; I think that's how we have to do it. Part of it is that it wasn't really being advanced in B.C. The former provincial government had over 400 types of agreements. There were economic development agreements, resource agreements, and stra

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Weyt-kp. I am Chief Judy Wilson from the Neskonlith Indian Band. I'm the secretary-treasurer for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, who represent over 100 first nations in B.C., largely those outside of the B.C. treaty process. The union has supported and advanced the