The Department of Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) seems poised to oversee the process of verifying Métis identity, at least according to a contract award notice on the government’s tendering service website, MERX. A branch of INAC, the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians has tentatively awarded a contract of between $50,000 to 100,000 for [...] . . . → Read More: Canada to oversee Métis identity process?
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Who is Indian and Northern Affairs Canada helping in England? That’s a darned good question. In fact, I’d like to know more after this little tidbit arrived in my email inbox from a helpful gnome, and another version arrived via my newsreader. I’ve contacted Marci, the media contact listed at the bottom of the news release. [...] . . . → Read More: Who is Indian Affairs helping in England? Honestly, I don’t even go looking for this stuff. Once again, the federal Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan has pretty much recanted the thunderous pronouncements he made as a Reform party critic. He’s made it a habit. In the Nov. 8 Toronto Star article, “Minister downplays despair on reserves,” Duncan was pushed for a “comment on the [...] . . . → Read More: Duncan v. Duncan: Indian Affairs Minister eats his own words again A well-researched missive this week over at The Dominion (“New Minister a ‘Declared Enemy’ of First Nations”) examines whether the August 2010 appointment of combative MP John Duncan as Indian and Northern Affairs Canada minister was the harbinger of a new, nastier tone to come in federal Aboriginal policy. I have to admit, reviewing some of [...] . . . → Read More: Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan: Menacing or Muzzled? Some recent tweets by RezSuperstar and YorkAboriginalU have alerted me to a disturbing, decade-long trend in federal support for First Nations students. According to the Chiefs of Ontario‘s Summer 2009 newsletter, an internal Indian and Northern Affairs Canada audit published last spring January reveals a less-than-rosy picture regarding the number of Status Indians attending post-secondary (i.e., [...] . . . → Read More: More youth, less education: What’s wrong with this picture? New Indian & Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan issued a formal apology to the descendants of 19 Inuit families who were forcibly relocated from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay in the High Arctic during the 1950′s. According to the full statement: “The Government of Canada apologizes for having relocated Inuit families and [...] . . . → Read More: Canada Apologizes to Inuit Families for Forced High Arctic Relocation A letter to the editor in today’s Globe and Mail minces no words in assessing the appointment of MP John Duncan to the position of Indian and Northern Affairs Minister: It is bordering on disgraceful that the newest cabinet minister has been given the Indian Affairs portfolio … What does Stephen Harper’s appointment of a first-time [...] . . . → Read More: Letter: John Duncan appointment as INAC Minister borders on “disgraceful” Well, they’ve gone and chucked Strahl — critics of Indian Affairs will have to slam Duncan now. And as MP John Duncan busies himself printing new business cards, we want to gauge the waters of public opinion on this change-up in political personnel. What, if anything, could this ministerial switch mean in terms of possible policy changes [...] . . . → Read More: POLL: Does Canada’s new Indian Affairs minister signal a change in policy? It’s official: John Duncan has replaced Chuck Strahl as Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Duncan had previously served as Strahl’s parliamentary secretary at INAC. Strahl – who many had believed was going to be the new Government House Leader - has taken over John Baird’s spot as Minister of Transport (who in turn has taken [...] . . . → Read More: Meet your new Indian Affairs Minister Canada’s political rumour mill has churned out correctly predicted the possibility that John Duncan will has become the next Indian and Northern Affairs Minister, thereby replacing fellow B.C. MP Chuck Strahl (who is in turn rumoured to has become the next Government House Leader Transport Minister). Should Since the speculation prove to be is now fact, [...] . . . → Read More: Canada’s new Indian Affairs minister: on the record Big news out of Ottawa. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce a mini-shuffle of his cabinet on Friday. According to a Globe & Mail report, John Duncan will replace Chuck Strahl as Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs. Strahl is rumoured to be moving up to Government House Leader, a position left open since Jay Hill [...] . . . → Read More: New Indian Affairs Minister expected to be announced Ah, the Indian Act. You know it, you hate it, you’re one of millions wondering what to do with it. Shawn Atleo thinks he knows. In fact, this week the Assembly of First Nations leader urged that the Act be repealed and replaced in its entirety by no later than 2015. Replaced with what, you ask? Atleo [...] . . . → Read More: POLL: Should the Indian Act be gone by 2015? I sent away for my “treaty money” the other day. Apparently, you can do that now. Growing up in Manitoba, treaty money was usually collected in person at “Treaty Days,” which commemorated the occasion of your First Nation signing its bilateral treaty with the Crown. Many treaty communities still host their own Days. It was at these [...] . . . → Read More: Some Inflated Thoughts About Treaty Payments The folks over at ‘Crazy Bitches R Us’ are taking the view that, despite Sharon McIvor and others’ criticisms of it, Bill C-3 (a bill essentially proposing changes to the Indian Act that would remove some, but not all, of the sexist impediments to passing Indian Status on to one’s children) is better than the [...] . . . → Read More: The Argument FOR Bill C-3: It ain’t perfect, but the alternative is too risky The Native Women’s Association of Canada has released an open letter to MPs from Sharon McIvor opposing Bill C-3 (aka, the “Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act”): According to the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Bill C-3 will make about 45,000 people newly eligible for registration as Indians. But [...] . . . → Read More: Sharon McIvor to MPs: Kill Bill C-3, It Won’t End Sex Discrimination of Indian Act During our recent sit-down with outgoing Chief Marcel Balfour, it wasn’t long before the discussion turned to Canada’s infamous ’2% funding cap.’ That’s the cap Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) places on annual increases to First Nations’ budgets. According to a report hosted on the department’s own website, this “2 per cent funding cap was [...] . . . → Read More: First Nations Funding: A System Built to Fail? The following is the second half of my two-part interview with former Chief Marcel Balfour, who recently opted not to run for re-election in his home community of Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. In part one of our conversation, we discussed the realities and frustrations of working with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), [...] . . . → Read More: De-brief with an Ex-Chief: First Nations Accountability Advocate Moves On (Pt. 2) Aboriginal Canadians have been allowed to vote in federal elections for 50 years now. But who’s voting? It was the fall of 1993 and the Canadian federal election campaign was heating up. I was in Grade 10, and one of my history assignments was to poll people in my community about the parties they were leaning [...] . . . → Read More: A half-century of the Aboriginal vote Now, if you’re like me, you occasionally find yourself needing to refer to every First Nations person’s favorite piece of legislation, the Indian Act. For many, it can be a bit of a slog to locate the Act in its most user-friendly form. So, to help make that task a little bit easier, we tracked it [...] . . . → Read More: The ‘Indian Act’: A Hard Act to Find |
     
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