Question Period Note: Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework

• Our government is working to renew nation-to-nation relationships with First Nations peoples based on the affirmation of rights, respect, cooperation, and partnership.

• We are at over 150 active negotiation tables, in more than 500 communities and involving nearly one million Indigenous people, to support Indigenous peoples in realizing their vision of self-determination.

• We are also committed to fully implementing treaties, self-government and other constructive arrangements.

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If Pressed on Murray Sinclair interview in the Current (63):

• Over the last five years, we have advanced reconciliation through rights-based discussion tables, co-development of a new fiscal framework for self-governing Indigenous governments, and legislation on Indigenous languages and Child and Family Services.

• We are working to fully implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and to co-develop legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
If Pressed on The Recognition and Reconciliation of Rights Policy for Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia (86)
• In September 2019, the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, and the First Nations Summit released the co-developed Recognition and Reconciliation of Rights Policy for Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia.

• This rights-based policy will support and enable approaches to the negotiation of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between Canada, British Columbia and participating First Nations in British Columbia.

• Where there is interest, Canada is ready to explore the use of the approaches found in the BC policy with negotiation partners elsewhere in the country.