Canada has ‘serious problems’ respecting UNDRIP obligations, UN racism envoy says

The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism says she ‘repeatedly’ heard concerns from Indigenous people that their right to free, prior, and informed consent is not consistently implemented across Canada.

One Canadian Economy Minister Dominic LeBlanc, centre left, and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty, centre right, speak at the Assembly of First Nations annual general meeting in July 2026. The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism says Canada is struggling to live up to its obligations under UNDRIP.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

October 9, 2026

More than five years after officially adopting the the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into law, Canada still struggles to live up to the obligations set out in UNDRIP, particularly when it comes to obtaining free, prior, and informed consent.

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