Carney's Bill C-5 summit does little to dispel concerns, say Manitoba Chiefs

A group of Manitoba chiefs performed at a summit with Prime Minister Mark Carney, whereby many of her concerns remain about the major projects of his government and how his fast approval process could deal with consultations and threatening the indigenous sovereignty.

The bosses from the provinces of the prairie organized on Thursday evening in Ottawa after a day full of discussions in neighboring Gatineau, que.

“In one of his comments at the beginning, the prime minister said that trust with acts and partnerships begins, and this is something he asked us – to trust him that he will honor these words,” said Garrison Sofa, Grand boss of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, the first nations in Nordmanitoba.

“It is difficult to trust a government after 150 years of eroded contracts and eroded promises.”

The second day of the two-day summit in the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, who on Thursday with the assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand boss, head of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, committed to Canada and in the preliminary translation, in the pre-translation of the AutoKres nation, in which the Lawn-26-year-old was raised, wrapped.

At the end of the day, the trio joined the boss from Alberta and Saskatchewan in Ottawa to convey their impressions about how this went back and forth with Carney and his administration this week.

Carney had described the legislative template as a means of stealing the Canadian economy against the tariff and the US trade threats

The law of the country enables C-5 to rationalize the approval processes of some major projects by handling previous provisions as long as these projects are considered in national interest.

The liberals referred to the summit for balls of fears that some leaders of the First Nations express on how this language could enable violations of contract rights.

The prime minister has tried to calm indigenous leaders that the consultation is a central part of the law.

“1 discussion about many”

Grand Chief Wilson said it remains unclear how the government of the Constitutional Act of 1982 will record. This confirms the rights of the indigenous population, which can be consulted in the event of a project that could have a negative impact on you or her country.

First nations have the right to be consulted on the basis of the judgments of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court, although they do not have a final veto about whether a project could possibly continue.

“We have to [know] From Canada how they will respect and recognize our laws, ”said Wilson.

“What will that look like? There are so many questions … This meeting was not a consultation, this meeting was a discussion and it will be a discussion about many.”

Sofa said sensible consultation honors contracts.

“This relationship must be reset [to] The way it was originally intended from the start when we had signed our contracts to benefit from the country and its resources in order to share the assets and to share the proceeds of every development project in our territories, “he said.

“When we speak about advice to consult the duty, you stop there – you never talk about accommodations, and I wanted to hear that … What is the accommodation process when a project begins in our territory?”

Nisichawayasihk Cree -boss Levasseur, whose community west of Thompson, Man., Said concerns about the appearance that Carney agrees to the formation of new energy corridors and how this could harm indigenous countries.

She pointed out climate change and its connection to forest fires because Manitoba has been experiencing his worst fire time for decades. More than 12,000 evacuated, mainly from remote northern communities, currently live in animal shelters, hotels and with relatives.

Past hydropower leaders and mines in and around their home community of NisichawayaSihk have damaged the drinking water and forest ecosystems, and they fear that they could repeat themselves if the federal government improves energy and mineral operations.

Levasseur compared the ratio of first nations and colonial governments with a toxic domestic partnership that heals time and good will to the.

“As the head of the First Nations, I would not love anything anymore to say that I can trust them or trust them, but as they said today, prime minister was not a consultation today. Today was only a commitment … they just know and know us,” she told us.

“A healthy and mutually respectful relationship will be a long, hard way … and we have to see some serious ideas of good faith.”

Days before the summit of this week, nine First Nations in Ontario submitted a legal contestation against Ontarios own law 5 and Carney's federal C-5, in the hope that one judge will both find both unconstitutional.

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