Trudeau looks to 20-year-old report for cues on Indigenous policy

Findings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples seemed relegated to the ashcan of history, until now.

When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People's issued a report in 1996, prime minister Jean Chrétien’s austerity-focused Liberal government had no interest in spending the billions of dollars on Indigenous people that it called for, writes Thomas Walkom.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY THOMAS WALKOM

September 4, 2017

TORONTO—Justin Trudeau's Indigenous strategy has suddenly become clearer. He is taking his cues from a road map laid out more than two decades ago by a controversial royal commission that, until now, has been roundly ignored. His plan to do away with the Indian Act and split the Indigenous Affai...

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