Canadian Declaration On Rights Of Indigenous Peoples

EDM number 417 in 2016-17, proposed by Martin Docherty on 06/09/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Ethnic groups, Human rights and North America.

That this House welcomes and congratulates the Federal Government of Canada on adopting in full the UN Declaration on Rights of lndigenous People; recognises the profound issues faced by the First Nations of Canada since European settlement; further recognises the worrying trends of high levels of attempted suicides highlighted by the recent investigation by Stephen Sachur in First Nation Communities; offers solidarity to those communities specifically the First Nation of Attawapiskat; and calls on the Federal and Provincial Governments of Canada to work in partnership with First Nations to address these profound inequalities.

This motion has been signed by a total of 59 MPs.