Senate Proposes Measure To Protect Native Rights

Friday, December 14, 2007 at 15:28

 

 

The federal government is being urged by a Senate committee to take measures that will strengthen legislative protection for existing Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada.

 

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has recommended the removal of non-derogation clauses, which are used to affirm that nothing in a bill in question is intended to infringe upon existing Aboriginal and treaty rights.

 

Aboriginal organizations have become alarmed about those clauses, because their wording has varied over the years.

 

Native groups say that could lead to the weakening of treaty rights.