Natan Obed said he wrote to Trudeau to express his concern about the NunatuKavut Community Council’s ability to receive federal grants and fisheries allocations based on a ‘simple self-declaration of Inuit identity’
Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, co-chairs a meeting of the Inuit -Crown Partnership Committee, in Ottawa, on May 9.As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada , a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous People s at risk.
“NunatuKavut is not Indigenous,” Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout wrote on the X social media platform Wednesday in response to a tweet about the funding. Such members “may benefit from aboriginal representation, affirmative action” and “various government-sponsored services and programs,” the document said.
The Metis National Council said last year that it supports Obed’s efforts to draw attention to what it called NunatuKavut’s “fraudulent claims” of an Inuit identity. It also called on the federal government to end support for the group.
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