UNDRIP legislation is mostly symbolic: here’s how to give it meaning

If UNDRIP legislation can empower Indigenous peoples to be partners and owners in resource development, everyone will gain.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett appears remotely at a media availability in Ottawa on Oct. 16, 2020. As the federal government prepares its UNDRIP bill, we need to think about how to actually put its principles into practice, writes Chief Sharleen Gale.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHARLEEN GALE

December 2, 2020

There is a lot of optimism in Indigenous communities about the reintroduction of legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). But passing legislation will not magically improve the social and economic conditions of Indigenous nations overnight...

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