Perry Bellegarde re-elected as AFN national chief ahead of potentially turbulent fall session

The Liberals are expected to table a bill on Indigenous rights this fall that may trigger a political battle with Indigenous activists and tear at Trudeau's progressive credibility.

AFN national chief Perry Bellegarde addresses the AFN's Special Chiefs Assembly on Federal Legislation in Gatineau, Que. on May 2.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JOLSON LIM

July 25, 2018

Perry Bellegarde has been re-elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Wednesday night following a bitterly contested race, a decisive victory ahead of a critical fall parliamentary session in which a land...

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