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aboriginal rights, Canada, Comprehensive Claims Policy, Federal Liberals Comprehensive Claims Policy, Land claims, Living Treaties Lasting Arrangements, Section 35
This book, produced by the federal government, is now very hard to find.
It was written after the 1982 Canadian Constitution Act had been formalized, but before the failure of the First Ministers Conferences to implement a meaningful “Section 35” – where Aboriginal and treaty rights are recognized and affirmed. This is possibly the single most candid publication the Canadian government has produced concerning Indigenous rights, and it admits a lot of Indigenous rights which have disappeared from the federal discourse since the failure of Canada to legislate implementation of Section 35.