Nunavik MP makes another bid to enshrine UN declaration – Nunatsiaqonline.ca

April 26, 2016

“The legislative framework for a national reconciliation that is long overdue in this country”

Romeo Saganash, the New Democratic Party MP who represents Nunavik, wants to find out if Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government intends to keep one of its big election promises: implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or UNDRIP.

To that end, he’s re-introduced a private members bill, Bill C-262, that would require that the federal government ensure all Canadian laws are consistent with the UN declaration.

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