The Assembly of First Nations says work co-developing a bill with the federal government is at a standstill
Talks aimed at creating legislation to ensure better policing within Indigenous communities are breaking down over the federal government’s refusal to recognize that First Nations have the right to determine their community safety needs, the Assembly of First Nations says in court documents.
Mr. Picard was speaking about a document that his group filed in Federal Court last week regarding the status of the pending policing legislation. “First Nations possess the right to self-determination with respect to determining their own community-safety needs and the right to exercise their jurisdiction over policing,” Ms. Potts writes.
told two members of his cabinet in their ministerial mandate letters to develop such a bill. In 2020, the Liberal government announced it would try to craft First Nations’ policing legislation together with the AFN, which had been calling for such changes for years. The affidavit by the AFN was filed by that group as it seeks to take part in an emergency legal action launched this spring by the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario.
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