An end to The Indian Act?

Provincial premiers agreed yesterday to play a bigger role in Indigenous affairs with the death of the $5 billion Kelowna Accord earlier this year.

Under The Indian Act, the feds are responsible for everything to do with Aboriginal peoples including health and education, issues for which the provinces control for the non-Native population.

I wonder if this might not be the first step in abandoning an Act which has been responsible for entrenching dependency, poverty and abuse; stealing status from Indigenous women and their families; and creating on-reserve hierarchies that, in some cases, have led to corruption.

I hope that provincial involvement will not spawn more delays in progress and encourage you to follow up with your provincial premier to demonstrate your support of provincial action and to let him know your vote is predicated, at least in part, on his action in this area.

Here's a link to the CBC story.

Colleen