Attawapiskat, site of a First Nations housing crisis. Credits: REUTERS/Frank Gunn/Pool photo
The Globe and Mail:
The Conservative government will introduce legislation that would
allow first nations members living on reserve to own their property, a
radical change that aims to spur economic development in native
communities that choose to embrace the new law.It’s all part of an ambitious Conservative agenda to bring fundamental changes to relations between Ottawa and the first nations – on property rights, on matrimonial rights, on financial transparency and on education. The act would potentially affect more than 366,000 natives living in more than 600 first nations communities, comprising some 2.7 million hectares of land. However, each first nation would be able to choose whether to introduce private property onto reserves. As yet, only a handful of native leaders support the idea...read here
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Private property on reserve and comment on Indian act
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