Heard On The Hill

Senator Brazeau releases report on Indigenous issues, and federal government’s ‘inertia’

Plus, former Senator Donald Oliver is releasing a memoir, Natan Obed seeks re-election and Doug Black is retiring from Senate says it is time to make room for a 'new voice'

Independent Senator Patrick Brazeau's report takes an in-depth look at the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ZAINAB AL-MEHDAR

August 16, 2021

Federal governments and the political parties that led them have been reluctant to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to Indigenous people in Canada since Confederation, the Indian Act has prevented Indigenous people from claiming their ancestral rights, and the Supreme Court has issued ruling...

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