Conservative Senators move to kill bill requiring laws to be consistent with UN declaration on Indigenous rights GlobePolitics
Conservative senators are attempting to derail a bill approved more than a year ago by the elected House of Commons that would require the government to consider whether federal laws are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .
The bill would not directly change Canadian legislation, he said, but would require governments to consider UNDRIP as they bring in new laws and examine existing ones. It would also oblige the federal Indigenous affairs minister to report to Parliament annually on progress the government has made toward achieving the declaration’s objectives.
Although the Liberal government did not immediately get behind Bill C-262 in 2016, Liberal cabinet ministers are now asking the Senate to get it passed before it dies on the Order Paper. Carolyn Bennett, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, and David Lametti, the Minister of Justice, wrote in April to Larry Smith, the Leader of the Conservatives in the Senate, to say the bill had been “duly passed by the elected chamber” and that his caucus should “cease its procedural delay tactics.
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