These legislative initiatives & policies are not new & are at least as old as the Indian Act and were articulated in the federal 1969 ____________________________Paper on Indian Policy.
The 1980's ____________________________ Jump Report proposed a management approach for First Nations policy & programs intended to implement components of the 1969 White Paper.
The 2006 Conservative Platform promised to:
Replace the ____________________________(& related legislation) with a modern legislative framework.(2 words)
Canada’s interpretation of section 35 of it’s constitution, is to ____________________________, politically and economically convert First Nations into what are essentially ethnic municipalities.
Canada’s Comprehensive ____________________________Policy requires First Nations to borrow money from the federal government to negotiate their “land claims”.
The B.C. ____________________________process has produced two small Modern Treaties, Tsawwassan and Maa’Nulth. The Nisga’a Treaty was concluded in 2000, outside of the B.C. Treaty process.
The Mulroney government's Buffalo Jump plan was temporarily derailed due the 1990 ______________Crisis.
The Harper government’s Bills listed above are designed to undermine the collective rights of First Nations by focusing on ____________________________rights.
In 1992, Aboriginal organizations & the federal government agreed, as part of the 1992 ____________________________Accord, on amendments to the Constitution Act, 1982 that would have included recognition of the inherent right of self-government for Aboriginal people.
"Modern" in Conservative terms means ____________________________of First Nations by termination of their collective rights & off-loading federal responsibilities onto First Nations & the provinces.
Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agree-
ments convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and __________________________________________their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.
The ____________________________ legislative framework provides for the devolution of full legal and democratic responsibility to Aboriginal Canadians for their own affairs within the Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
First Nation Band & Tribal Council funding for ____________________________services will be eliminated over the next 2 years further crippling the ability of Chiefs/Councils & Tribal Councils to analyze/assess the impacts of relevant federal & provincial policies and legislation.