Conservative senators are attempting to derail a bill approved more than a year ago by the elected House of Commons that would require the government to consider whether federal laws are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .
The bill would not directly change Canadian legislation, he said, but would require governments to consider UNDRIP as they bring in new laws and examine existing ones. It would also oblige the federal Indigenous affairs minister to report to Parliament annually on progress the government has made toward achieving the declaration’s objectives.
Although the Liberal government did not immediately get behind Bill C-262 in 2016, Liberal cabinet ministers are now asking the Senate to get it passed before it dies on the Order Paper. Carolyn Bennett, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, and David Lametti, the Minister of Justice, wrote in April to Larry Smith, the Leader of the Conservatives in the Senate, to say the bill had been “duly passed by the elected chamber” and that his caucus should “cease its procedural delay tactics.
globepolitics Becoming entwined with obligations to others beyond our borders shows lack of foresight. I live in Canada, which presents sufficient bureaucratic idiocy all on its own.
globepolitics One more reason to get rid of the Senate.
globepolitics Boo.
globepolitics An unelected Senate is acceptable to me IF it properly fulfills its role of “sober, second thought”. This includes ONE round of amendments. It does NOT include blocking a Bill or refusing passage after the HoC has re-considered it. Don’t turn me into a Senate abolitionist!
globepolitics UN is satanic. All humans oppose them. Peoplekind support them.
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globepolitics RomeoSaganash Conservatives are concerned 'Indigenous peoples would have free, prior and informed consent over [...] resource development, on their lands or territories'. C262 CDNpoli Reconciliation
cblackst Is there any Cons willing to walk away from Harper meaness? What a bunch of lemmings!
globepolitics When the first two words are 'Conservative Senators' you know it's down hill from there. If you can't be self serving no point serving at all is their mindset.
globepolitics This is Canada not the U.N. We deal with Canadian law. Good for the Senators. I have no sympathy for the so called 'Independent' Senators who have overwhelmingly voted Liberal line throughout their tenure.
globepolitics We have elected governments, whether I agree with them or not. IDGAF what the U.N. says.
globepolitics Pigs!
globepolitics UNHumanRights undrip
globepolitics Abolish. The. Senate.
globepolitics Good. Anyone who listens to UN decrees is a fool.
globepolitics Canadians really out here trying to pretend the UN is EU-like and claiming an attack on sovereignty. It wasn’t correct re the EU during the Brexit nonsense; it’s not correct now. Elected MPs wrote the legislation sitting before the Senate; the UN did not.
globepolitics Abolish the bloody senate
globepolitics The SenateCA has become a destructive, regressive institution with a lot of blind, self important regressive individuals in play.
answerallman globepolitics Time to abolish the senate.
globepolitics Let’s call a spade a spade, you Liberal arms are in distress. Pretty feeble attempt. But I’m enjoying it, play on playa!
globepolitics Good. The unelected UN doesn't get to dictate our laws.
globepolitics Why am I not surprised? When it comes right down to it media has been remiss in asking the Conservative party in general what they think about Indigenous Canada and the TRC recommendations. Incidents of ill-will like this have cropped up and are now a pattern.
globepolitics Andrew Sheer ...is like that guy who pulls up in a van and says hey kid wanna ride ....kids of liberal parents run and scream for help in the other direction....while the kids unfortunately born to PC supporters hop right in no questions asked.
DartmouthDerek globepolitics The Senate will be abolished by any legal means necessary, even if it take Harper level manipulation to destroy it. Start working now folks, any legal method.
globepolitics I don’t want to go to hell with andrew scheer
globepolitics Canadians should be the only people telling other Canadians what to and what not to do. The UN should mind their own business.
globepolitics In July 2016, Kwakwaka’wakw Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould gave a speech that stated that 'adopting the UNDRIP as being Canadian law are unworkable', due to its incompatibility with the Indian Act, the current governing statute.
globepolitics Good for them for letting Canadians decide their laws not a corrupt UN dictum
globepolitics Thank you. Canadian law and the Canadian parliament before the UN.
globepolitics Why don’t Canada’s indigenous people join society and stop crying about everything. They don’t pay taxes & get everything for next to nothing, yet still find the need to steal cars and get high. Canada accepts them. They need to accept themselves & accept Canada
globepolitics Scrap the UN
globepolitics Majority of Canadians would agree. This isn’t an issue they see as a priority.
globepolitics I mean of course they did. They’re appointed, not elected, and they’re racists. So.
globepolitics Why? Andy these are your people! Some corrective action required! andrewscheer
globepolitics FFS! I am so done with conservative obstructionism. Arrogant superiority complex fueled by narcissistic stupidity. They should all be ashamed. A disgrace.
globepolitics And this is how UN pushes their agenda on to sovereign countries
globepolitics This is all about Rich, Entitled and mostly Absent Senators wanting to protect their oil investments. Canada should proudly sign-on to any declaration that helps to reinforce the rights of people. It should be our baseline, not the benchmark.
globepolitics Beyond outrageous Time for this unelected body to send this historic bill back to the elected chamber for passage
globepolitics We can’t do this on our own (Grassynarrows) so The UN pulls the puppet strings. I’ve indigenous roots and would never agree to UN imposing a “one size fits all” policy. Canada’s indigenous have unique needs and rights!
ElizabethMay globepolitics Good.
globepolitics Noticed how the UN constantly targets, pushover, Canada and not the US.
globepolitics Yeah we don't do business like that in a sovereign country.
globepolitics Why do we have to follow every thought wave by unapproved UN lobby groups
ElizabethMay globepolitics Good, read the last article of the declaration, it says all this bullshit can't interfere with an existing sovereign nation or democracy.
ElizabethMay globepolitics Bunch of colonialist Harperite a-holes CPC_HQ has a racist problem. AndrewScheer cdnpoli onpoli topoli bcpoli
globepolitics On Election Day, remember who appointed these racists.
ElizabethMay globepolitics Good job.
globepolitics If Canada was a democracy, the Senate would be elected, not appointed.
globepolitics Canada is supposed to be a Democracy not dictated to by seven percent of population
Nehiyahskwew globepolitics Doing Indigenous Peoples a favour - Even if unintentional
globepolitics Good! Canada doesn’t need UN policy to give indigenous people the respect they deserve. Canadians love and respect indigenous culture... what Canada needs is a government that respects Canadian values.
globepolitics Good news indeed.
globepolitics Wow... What a greedy ass move. So gross
globepolitics Canada no longer exists. Current liberal government has declared Canada a Post National country. Nice to see a little pushback. You
globepolitics Good I didn't vote for the UN and never would They cause more division and violence in the world than all the countries on the planet combined
globepolitics But but JWR.... Hope this story gets the same wall to wall coverage