Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is “committed” to abolishing or reforming the Indian Act, after Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew called for Ottawa to get rid of it.
Carney told reporters after a meeting between first ministers and chiefs from the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) that his government is “committed to a process that moves Canada beyond the Indian Act.” Carney did not say exactly how this process would go forward, but that his government would work with First Nations to determine it.
“It could be moving beyond. It could be reforming. It could be abolishing and then … modernizing. Fully modernizing the governance relationship is the desirable end state,” Carney told reporters on Oct. 26….