Prime Minister Mark Carney promised the wealth and wealth of the first nation’s rights to the “future generations” at a summit on Thursday to reduce leaders’ concerns about the government’s major projects that have set up criticism as it allows for rapid follow -up.
In the presence, Carney’s remarks drew the mixed reviews of the first nations leaders. Some expressed the hardened optimism and others to invest in the whole process.
“I’m leaving Ottawa more concerns and more questions,” said Shut off Locomotive Wall (Jesse Stopper) who is Gitxan and deputy chief Slander The North BC village council stood outside the meeting.
“I didn’t have much to believe in the process at first, and I’m very worried.”
Angela Levassmaster Nessichawardasihk Cree Nation Manitoba was not ready to reject the meeting as a failure and not praise it as a success, calling it “to the top”.
“I’m not happy because once again there is a lot of unfinished business that the first nation has with Canada,” he said in response to the prime minister’s speech.
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Carney said that the law, known as the Bill C-5 prior to passing it through Parliament in June, is designed to “merge and change the economy” at the time the country is in front of the threats of US President Donald Trump.
He said that the potential benefits of new railways, ports and energy corridors “construction flow into the first nations because” the economic growth of indigenous peoples is in the midst of this new framework. “
The regulatory structure ensures that large projects are “built in the right way” when appropriate consultations have suffered from indigenous communities, he said.
“A reliable partner for indigenous peoples goes beyond the advice of the long-term wealth and the creation of prosperity through the complete justice,” Carney said, referring to the indigenous cedar-fluid (LNG) project in BC something that emits elsewhere.
“The new Canadian government is committed to working together so that we can build Canada together to the advantage of everyone,” he said.
Still, Carney expected to criticize the new law – something he said on Thursday that he did not want to change despite his opposition.
“We admit that there are different perspectives, which is why we today invited a wide selection of first nation leadership to participate today,” he said.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and other government officials held meetings with the first nation leaders in Gatineau, queer on Thursday. The Grand Chief Cody Diabo: Wed from Kahnawà Mohawk’s Council said that “meetings were” basically dealing with people at our table who are not dealing with government officials “and that he leaves” very disappointed “.
Some in the presence brushed the leaders were treated and looked to walk out. Government officials firmly kept the grip on the summit, launching the media from the room and then after talking Carney.
The masters were asked to send questions in advance, and when they arrived, there was a list of the questions on the tables they commented on. Some felt that they were talked about, not listening.
“I was thinking about packing and exiting myself because I say this is nothing like that I thought it was,” said Mohawk Council Kanawan I: (MCK) Grand Chief Cody DevilWho said he left the summit more worried than consoled.
Na’mox (John Ridsdale), hereditary chief The Wet’Suwet’en nation had a similar reaction: “You will not give people a manuscript they must stay because you have already made the decision.”
At one point, the first youth delegation of the first nations of the North Ostari arrived to protest against legislation, but the RCMP officer met those who prevent them from entering the area. In front of the group was 21-year-old Jeronimo Kataquaps, who has set up camps along the Attawapiskat River to resist.
“If we stand and look at anyone who comes to our home and doing what they want, then everything our ancestors have fought to this moment would have been useless,” he told the journalists as the group cheered.
The C-5 accelerated through the parliament and was changed to demand the consent of the province for national projects, but the Senate voted on the provision proposed by the Mi’kmaw Senate Paul Prosper to include a free, previous and conscious consent in the language of the bill.
“Our rights cannot be enforced or respected without us, in content and in the process,” said the First Nations National Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak’s representative meeting at the Ottawa briefing on Wednesday.
“They cannot be respected after a fact.”
Woodhouse reported that more than 600 nations around the country have a variety of opinions about legislation, and the summit should have taken place before the bill.
He said that he wants Carney to come on the table with significant changes to the Bill C-5 and solutions “for” $ 350 billion in infrastructure for the first nation for children in this country “.
At AFN’s press conference, Joanna Bernard Madawaska Malinen from First Nation, AFN’s New Brunswick regional chief, said that the Carney’s summit is not really hearing.
“They come in, they set the agenda, they decide how this progresses, but definitely it is not heard. If we were not here, we will deliver the agenda, and this is not today,” Bernard said.
Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, a national meeting of the first nations, spoke at a summit with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday with a bill on the government’s major projects, said that he was looking for real commitments around critical issues, including the removal of the infrastructure network and securing.
Carney has said that hearing indigenous peoples is central to the bill of large projects, but indigenous leaders have said that it is a difficult promise to trust without explicit changes.
“Before the appropriate process of the rights of First Nations and the crown, based on free, former and conscious consent, the legal obligations of the crown are not fulfilled,” said Woodhouse Nepinak.
“The masters have made it very clear that the consent of the first nation for large projects is not optional.”
On Monday, nine Ontario’s first nations left the legal challenge of the bill C-5 and the Ontario bill 5.
The Supreme Court has previously decided that the first nation has the right to consult projects within the rights and ownership of indigenous peoples – but they have no final traction right if the project goes forward.
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