If parties want to get elected, ‘you better care about our issues’ says AFN chief – CBC
June 06, 2015
“Where’s our ‘yes’ from this Conservative government for First Nations people?”
That’s the question National Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations is asking as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission wraps up six years of hearings and research into the residential schools system — and as the Conservative government has mostly stayed silent on whether or not they will move to act on the TRC’s 94 recommendations.
Those recommendations range from drafting new and revised legislation for education, child welfare and aboriginal languages to implementing the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and creating a national inquiry into murdered and missing Aboriginal women.
