'For the good of all Indigenous people': N.L. government discussing implementing United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) – a piece of legislation that was over 25 years in the making – wasn’t adopted in Canada until 2016. That’s nearly a decade after it was passed by the United Nations in 2007. At the time, Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand were the only four countries that voted against it, explained Keith Cormier, former western vice-chief of Qalipu First Nation. Now the push is on to have Newfoundland adopt it as well. UNDA Following its adoption in Canada in 2016, Cormier said, came The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or UNDA, which is the act to implement UNDRIP in Canada. “Back in the fall of 2022, I think it was,…

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