Sunday, April 13, 2008

·Tina Keeper · Member of Parliament for Churchill· Visits Cecilia

http://www.tinakeeper.ca/articles/speeches/0025.html

When we are talking about human rights, we are not talking about some
concept that is not applicable in people's day to day lives. That is
the very reason we have these laws and conventions. The work at the UN
on the rights of indigenous peoples has been critical in terms of our
domestic law and how we move forward.


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the government has not, as it claims, moved forward in a process that
assures the rights enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples are held domestically. In fact, it does have
horrible consequences in the day to day lives of people at the
community level. What we have seen is a government that has often
claimed to move forward in a process but that has been a sham.