Changing the Machinery of Government: Indigenous Affairs Portfolio

(Disponible en français : Restructuration de l’appareil gouvernemental : portefeuille des affaires autochtones) More than twenty years ago, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommended that “the government of Canada present legislation to abolish the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and to replace it by two new departments: a Department of Aboriginal Relations…

Monument to aboriginal war veterans in Confederation Park, Ottawa, Canada

Spending and Jurisdiction for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples

Brittany Collier Legal and Social Affairs Division Section 35 (2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 defines the Aboriginal peoples of Canada as including Indian (also referred to as First Nations), Inuit and Métis.[1] Despite this broad constitutional definition, the federal government’s current policy is that its responsibility – with a few exceptions – extends only…

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Changing the Machinery of Government: Indigenous Affairs Portfolio

Spending and Jurisdiction for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples