
Government supports indigenous declaration without reservation: Wilson-Raybould
OTTAWA — Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has a message for critics who suggest she is backtracking on the government’s pledge to bolster indigenous rights in Canada: she isn’t.
The lawyer and former Assembly of First Nations B.C. regional chief says she has spent her career working on indigenous legal issues and she is not “turning away” now.
Wilson-Raybould became the subject of news coverage last week after she delivered a speech at the AFN annual meeting in Niagara Falls, Ont.
During the remarks, she noted “simplistic approaches” like adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian law are “unworkable.”