OTTAWA - This past weekend, over 3,200 Liberals – more than the Conservative Party and the NDP’s last conventions combined – met in Ottawa to begin the transformation of the Liberal Party of Canada into a more welcoming and modern political movement. Part of that process included electing a new Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (APC) Executive. Introducing [...]

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Sunday a Liberal government would bring running water to northern Manitoba reserves that now lack it. Ignatieff was asked a question about improving the lives of aboriginal Canadians as he launched the Liberal election platform at a downtown Ottawa hotel Sunday morning. Ignatieff said he met with chiefs [...]

The Harper government’s submission to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in a case involving First Nations child welfare reveals that the Conservatives are already backtracking on their 2010 Throne Speech promise to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Liberal Aboriginal Affairs Critic Todd Russell said today. “The Attorney General admitted [...]

The Liberal Party was successful in passing an amendment to Bill C-3 at a committee this week that will ensure that Parliament, once and for all, eradicates gender discrimination under the Indian Act’s provisions concerning entitlement to status. The amendment passed at the Aboriginal Affairs Committee, despite Conservative members voting against it – showing once [...]