Federal government working at cross-purposes in realizing UNDRIP

The conclusion we are left to draw is the feds are not fully committed to entrusting key services to Indigenous institutions, to working as our partner, or to recognizing Indigenous economic rights in practice.

Shannin Metatawabin is the CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association, which has developed a National Indigenous Economic Strategy that contains more than 100 Calls to Economic Prosperity.Photograph courtesy of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association

Opinion

BY SHANNIN METATAWABIN

September 28, 2022

Sept. 13 marked the 15th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Indigenous people across the world marked the occasion. I did too, with mixed feelings. A member of the Fort Albany First Nation, I am the CEO of the Nat...

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