PM Harper failing to fulfill Mulroney’s Oka promise on modern treaties – APTN
April 8, 2015
As the smoke was clearing from the 1990 Oka Crisis, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney wrote to the premiers of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon about the long, hot summer saying his government would be responding to the demands of “Aboriginal people” in four parts.
At the top of the list was “resolving land claims.”
Mulroney assured the two premiers the issue would receive Ottawa’s full attention.
“The federal government is determined to create a new relationship among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians based on dignity, trust and respect,” wrote Mulroney to former NWT premier Dennis Patterson and former Yukon Premier Tony Penikett in near-identical letters dated Nov. 15, 1990.
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