‘It can only benefit the conversation’: connecting leaders with frontline stakeholders a priority for lobbyists on Indigenous-related files

Advocacy work over the past year has emphasized to decision-makers that their approaches to major issues continuing to affect Indigenous people were also of interest to the wider public, says NWAC head Lynne Groulx.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, and Justice Minister David Lametti took part in summer meetings with the National Association of Friendship Centres.
Connecting decision-makers to those directly affected by their policies has been a priority for federal lobbyists working on Indigenous-related files over the past year. “The conversation has become much broader, much more informed, much more constructive, with everybody,” said Isabel Metcalfe,...

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