Federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister told Sudbury.com his focus is paying long overdue bills to First Nations and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians
Crown-Indigenous relations minister, Marc Miller, has been touring First Nation communities in Northern Ontario this week.
“If you compare a non-Indigenous community to an Indigenous community, the gaps are clear,” he said. “Chief and council community members often want to talk about housing, infrastructure, and work that needs to be done by the federal government.” “It needs to continue through the next few budgetary cycles,” he said. “Any government that wants to lead this country needs to make sure that we're living up to our obligations to Indigenous communities.
One way that land will be given back, said Miller, is through federal addition to reserve frameworks. An addition to a reserve is a parcel of land added to the existing reserve land of a First Nation or that creates a new reserve. Land can be added adjacent to the existing reserve land or separated from the existing reserve land .
Miller told Sudbury.com that “when it comes to the compensation and improper payment of treaty obligations that have gone unfulfilled in this area of the country since 1850, that's about the federal government finally paying some long overdue bills.”“It’s an issue of respect and relationship,” siad Miller.
It will ensure that survivors don’t have to “face” the federal government, said Miller, making it an easier proposition for those who are looking for information or closure. He said that survivors are entitled to closure, and the government has to keep working to make sure that information is not held back unduly.“There are things that are moving, but it's still very much an incomplete puzzle in terms of making sure that we're compensating people properly for the harm they've suffered at the hands of the federal government.”
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