Facing legal challenges and leaders demanding a repeal of Bill C-5, will the prime minister’s summit with First Nations mark a turning point? – APTN News
Jul 15, 2025
Whether it leads to reconciliation or confrontation remains to be seen.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s two-day summit with First Nations leaders comes at a volatile moment, as tensions rise over the One Canadian Economy Act, also known as Bill C-5.
Leaders are arriving in Ottawa with questions, legal threats and growing frustration over the fast-tracked law and what it could mean for their lands and rights.
“This is a bad decision by the prime minister to short-circuit the need to protect the land, the earth itself, and to trample on our people’s rights and reduce our rights to consultation,” said Ovide Mercredi, a lawyer and former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), in a virtual meeting held to prepare for the summit.
