‘Treaties are above this law,’ Alty says of Bill C-5 – Cabin Radio

July 25, 2025

Crown-Indigenous relations minister Rebecca Alty, who is also the NWT’s MP, says modern treaties take precedence over Bill C-5, Mark Carney’s nation-building legislation.

Carney co-chaired a meeting of Inuit leaders alongside Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed on Thursday.

Also representing the federal government at that meeting in Inuvik were Alty, Indigenous services minister Mandy Gull-Masty and other members of cabinet.

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