What’s New in Indigenous Watchdog: 249 New Entries: March 1- March 31, 2025

Press Release

Not Started	Stalled	In Progress	Complete
14	21	45	14
15%	22%	48%	15%

Status	Legacy Calls to Action (1-42) + 50-52, 62-65	Reconciliation Calls to Action (43-94)
Not Started	2, 9, 10, 26, 34, 51, 52, 64	45, 46, 47, 55, 56, 89
Stalled	1, 6, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 29, 30, 35	58, 62, 71, 77, 78, 86, 87, 92, 93
Complete	13, 15, 41	49, 53, 59, 67, 68, 70, 80, 83, 84, 85, 94

Legacy Calls to Action include “Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System” (50-52) and “Education for Reconciliation (62-65) in order to keep all “Justice” and “Education” Calls to Action in one location

See also “Perspectives” post for a complete 6-page colour-coded Status Updates document summarizing all 94 Calls to Action

Indigenous Watchdog Updates

The following presents a year-to-date statistical snapshot of stakeholder actions across ALL themes that are either advancing reconciliation (Legacy and Reconciliation C2As and Government Commitments) or creating roadblocks (Current Problems)

Section	2023 YTD	2024 YTD	Jan. 31, 2025	Feb. 28, 2025	Mar. 31, 2025	2025 YTD
Current Reality	31	44	4	10	12	26
Current Problems	1046	1295	117	105	108	330
Legacy C2As	319	310	23	27	35	85
Reconciliation C2As	158	167	13	8	7	28
Govt. Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation	112	127	6	8	10	24
Other Issues: Government Commitments	148	195	12	16	18	46
Background Content	204	481	51	57	59	167
Total	2018	2619	226	231	249	706
Indigenous Success Stories	83	68	10	6	8	16

Notes:

Current Reality includes ALL 94 Calls to Action and Other Issues
Legacy C2As, Reconciliation C2As, Government Commitments and Other Issues represent positive steps that are advancing reconciliation
Current Problems includes all those in “Calls to Action” plus “Other Issues” and “Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation
“Other Issues” presents information on Drinking Water Advisories, Food Insecurity, Suicide Prevention, Urban Commitments to Reconciliation, Housing, Environment and Treaties and Land Claims
Background Content provides additional context for Calls to Action and/or Themes

Change in Status

C2A 42

Justice

Not Started to In progress

Federal govt introduced Indigenous Justice Strategy for reforms throughout the criminal justice system to support revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal orders

UPDATES to Current Reality (found on Landing Pages of each Theme)

Date	Theme	Description
March 3	National Council	The National Council for Reconciliation is incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act with an 18-month timeline to operationalize the Council’s mandate to track and report on how reconciliation is advancing
March 3	Government Commitments	The National Council for Reconciliation is incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act with an 18-month timeline to operationalize the Council’s mandate to track and report on how reconciliation is advancing
March 6	Justice	Government of Canada releases first ever Indigenous Justice Strategy to transform reforms throughout the criminal justice system and support the revitalizations of Indigenous laws and legal orders
March 11	Drinking Water Advisories	35 Long Term Drinking Water Advisories (DWA) are still in effect in 33 communities. 147 Long Term DWA have been lifted since 2015