The Trudeau government’s oft-promised commitment to build a new relationship with Canada’s First Nations isn’t working out exactly as either side expected. In July, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould abandoned a promise to adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Wilson-Raybould told the Assembly of First Nations that embracing the declaration as Canadian law was “unworkable,” just as the Harper Conservatives had done before them. Before she became justice minister, Wilson-Raybould was openly critical of the dam project. The Liberals won’t help matters if they continue to hand natives a reason to maintain that level of suspicion and doubt.

Source: National Post September 29, 2016 13:52 UTC