February 13 In 1992, the report of the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing urged limits on advertising, seats for aboriginal people and inducements for parties to recruit women. The report also advocated laws to make sure parties — which it called essential to the democratic process in Canada — promote democratic values and practices themselves. February 14 In 1973, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed to establish a federal committee to negotiate Yukon Indian land claims. In 1995, an agreement giving more power to Aboriginal Peoples in the Yukon went into effect, on the 22nd anniversary of the day Indian elder Elijah Smith presented then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau with a document outlining their claim. Final terms were reached in 1993. The agreement gave 14 First Nations title to…
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