FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron said that fair share of revenues will be used to invest in housing, on reserve tribal police and to address the alcohol, drugs and violence on reserves.
Beaudin said if these changes aren’t made they have no choice but to use the court system to have their voices heard.
“We weren’t even allowed to hire legal counsel until 1951, so how can you rightfully say we were consulted, we were given legal opinions when the NRTA was signed?” Whitecalf said.Story continues below advertisement Former federal justice minister David Lametti was at the Assembly of First Nations’ Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa on April 5 and was asked to rescind the 1930s Natural Resources Transfer Agreement.
He also noted a clause touching on non-Crown interest in land, which he said would pertain to homesteaders at the time. “The province is confident that The Saskatchewan First Act is constitutionally sound and is prepared to defend the Act in the case of a legal challenge. The Constitution Act, 1982, entrenches the NRTA in the Constitution of Canada, as part of the Constitution Act, 1930,” read the statement.It claimed that the Saskatchewan First Act does not restrict or limit the rights of First Nations or Metis people.
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