Canadian Parliamentary Review, June 22nd, 2002
In 2001 the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Nault, announced that the government would be introducing legislation to overhaul the Indian Act. In anticipation of this legislation in February 2002, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs began hearing from various witnesses on issues relating to the Act. For the sake of simplicity, this article uses the term "Indian" throughout. The Constitution states that Canada's Aboriginal Peoples are Indians, Metis and Inuit, but the Indian Act does not apply to Metis and the 1951 Indian Act specifically excludes Inuit from its ...
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