Establishment of a National Reconciliation Council moves forward

The announcement comes the day after National Indigenous Peoples Day, when Thursday is the last sitting of the House of Commons before the summer break. In an interview, Minister Miller made it clear that the bill will go forward when Parliament returns.

As proposed, the National Reconciliation Council would be independent, permanent and Indigenous-led and would be responsible in particular for ensure that long-term progress on reconciliation in Canada is sustained and sustainedin addition to monitoring and evaluating reconciliation efforts.

” It is clear – and it is even obvious – that it is not up to Canada to give ratings on this issue. “

A transitional committee had been formed in December in order to be able to establish the guidelines for this committee. He presented Minister Miller with his recommendations last March.

Marc Miller affirms that the members of the transitional committee will be from the national council of reconciliation.

Bilateral meetings about the council also took place last month between the minister and the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council.

A commitment of $126.5 million has already been made in Budget 2019 to support the establishment of the council.

Moreover, Minister Miller does not hide the fact that the question of language within this council could turn out to be complex.

It will be a challengeadmits Marc Miller.

Although advice will follow obviously the Official Languages ​​Act, Minister Miller judged that there will also be a duty to respect Aboriginal languages.

In the eyes of the ministry, the creation of a national reconciliation council is a response directly calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

It took the commitment of the government to respond to these callsjudge to this effect the Minister.

Calls to Action 53 to 56 would therefore be implemented by the Government of Canada.

Minister Miller assures that the government will not languish in respecting these calls to action and will collaborate in terms of data sharing, according to him the confidence of the indigenous people in the government is already very slim.