Trudeau Liberals woo high-profile aboriginal candidates ahead of 2015 – CBC
Sep 29, 2014
Trailing other parties in aboriginal representation in the House, party promises to promote new voices
A rejected aboriginal education act, a controversial financial transparency act, persistent calls for a national public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, court challenges to major energy projects and rumblings of more Idle No More protests.
Those are just some of the conflicts that threaten to further hobble an already fractured relationship between the federal government and Canada’s aboriginal people.
With the next federal election campaign less than a year away, the Liberals are moving to position themselves as the party that can repair that relationship and give aboriginals a voice in Parliament.
