{"id":56224,"date":"2020-12-29T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56224"},"modified":"2020-12-29T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:44:17","slug":"hope-for-the-best-from-canadas-undrip-law-but-expect-more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56224","title":{"rendered":"Hope for the Best from Canada\u2019s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope for the Best from Canada\u2019s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same<\/a><\/h3>\n

Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The BC government\u2019s claimed commitment to adopting United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples didn\u2019t stop it from ignoring the rights of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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After years of false starts, the federal government has taken a tentative step towards implementing the\u00a0United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples<\/a> by introducing\u00a0Bill C-15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Is this really a game changer for Indigenous Peoples in Canada? I have my doubts,\u00a0as do others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are two reasons for skepticism.<\/p>\n

First, Bill C-15 focuses on high-level, aspirational commitments rather than on delivering concrete, immediate change to Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n

If passed into law, Bill C-15 will require the federal government to take measures to ensure the laws of Canada are consistent with the declaration, and to prepare and implement an action plan to achieve its objectives. While enacting sweeping changes to federal legislation will undoubtedly take time, the federal government\u2019s focus on these future promises conveniently allows it to sidestep the realities that Indigenous people face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Governments pour promises on Indigenous people like a winter rain. Rather than witnessing real change, we are too often left with cold disappointment.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019ll be different this time. But, if the experience of British Columbia\u2019s\u00a0UNDRIP legislation<\/a> is an accurate predictor, we should all dress for more cold rains.<\/p>\n

Passed a little over a year ago to great fanfare, the B.C.\u00a0Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act<\/a> has failed to live up to its promise. Instead, the provincial government has continued with its dreary, self-serving narrative based on the denial of Indigenous rights.<\/p>\n

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Hope for the Best from Canada\u2019s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them. The BC government\u2019s claimed commitment to adopting United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples didn\u2019t stop it from ignoring the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,30778,103,106,30777,5499],"class_list":["post-56224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-british-columbia","tag-bruce-mcivor","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56226,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56224\/revisions\/56226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}