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Negotiation or confrontation

12 Dec 2006

Germain, P. C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cochrane: That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, in accordance with rule 86 (1)(q) of the Senate, be authorized to examine and report on the general concerns of First Nations in Canada related to the federal Specific Claims process, the nature and status of the Government of Canada's Specific Claims policy, the present ad [...] We noticed the conflict of interest of the Crown whereby Canada is the judge, the jury and the prosecutor in the process of resolving specific land claims. [...] The federal government was not involved to the extent it was in some other provinces hence the unique reserve history of BC needs to be taken into consideration in the resolution of Specific Claims there.66 The Committee also learned the Specific Claims landscape in the Maritimes is unique because of the pre-Confederation aspect there. [...] Only the “abysmal ignorance of the Government of Canada as a whole in regard to the magnitude and nature of the issue of Specific Claims” could account for the Minister of Indian Affairs saying in 1991 that all the Specific Claims would be settled by the year 2000.76. [...] The Union of Ontario Indians thinks the federal government and First Nations should work collaboratively to arrive at compensation limits for the new Specific Claims policy.94 The AFN called for the government to promise to significantly reduce the number of Specific Claims in three to five years.95 In the same vein, the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) suggested a new Specific Claims policy be deve
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