Economic self-determination through lending: empowering Indigenous peoples, implementing UNDRIP

The federal government should provide new capital to assist in the development of a long-term sustainability fund that will allow AFIs to continue helping Indigenous communities realize their right to economic self-determination.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on the Hill on Oct. 2, 2016, at a rally for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. At least one aspect of implementing the UNDRIP really could be that simple. So what is Prime Minister Trudeau's government waiting for, writes Shannin Metatawabin.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

September 18, 2017

In the 1980s, the federal government and Indigenous leaders were on the right track. Prior to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and even prior to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, it was known that the Indigenous eco...

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