The Assembly of First Nations is urging the Canadian government to overhaul its action plan on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), after a working draft of the plan met with disappointment and resistance at a chiefs’ conference this week in Ottawa.
In an emergency resolution debated Thursday morning, First Nations leaders urged the Liberals to amend the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act to delay the plan or, if that fails, amend the plan after tabling it following more consultation.
The chiefs eventually carried the resolution but not without amendments, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether the
