Standing committee on Bill C-7 heads to Manitoba

Winnipeg and Thompson slated for public hearings

By Len Kruzenga

While previous attempts to amend the Indian Act in 1968 and then again in the late 1990s ended up in the parliamentary equivalent of a landfill site, INAC Minister Robert Nault's legislative foray appears to have an increasing sense of inevitability to it.
This even as the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs winds its way across the nation to conduct public hearings on the proposed Bill C-7 legislation, commonly referred to as the First Nations Governance Act (FNGA).

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Case against Peltier's innocence builds

 

American Indian reporter also uncovers unsettling evidence on Anna Mae Aquash murder

By Len Kruzenga
The First Perspective

Fiat justitia-ruat caelum "Do justice, and let the skies fall."

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