Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy Health benefits alone could cost another billion dollars2025 ended with the country overlooking the most wide-reaching potential change to come to Indigenous law in 40 years. The question of who can be registered as a legal “Indian,” to use the proper constitutional language, has been contentious as far back as this octogenarian can remember. The federal government, under the Brian Mulroney government, led a major change in 1985 to, quite properly, promote equality between Indian men and women in obtaining status. But other changes aimed at cleaning up issues in the Indian Act also created new dilemmas, making sections 6 through 8 of the Indian Act almost impossible for the layman to decipher. Last year, the federal government introduced Bill S-2, “An Act to amend…
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