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There’s a bill winding its way through Parliament that threatens First Nations' rights under the guise of promoting reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Bill C-53 proposes legislation that the federal government claims will merely confirm self-government rights for three provincial Métis organizations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.
The MNO claims that the modern coming together of people with mixed Indigenous and non-Indigenous ancestry creates new Aboriginal rights—a proposition that the leading decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada on Métis status explicitly reject. Métis rights that are protected by Sec.
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