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-CP-The executive team from the Assembly of First Nations will meet in the coming days to discuss how to proceed with new negotiations for a child welfare reform deal after chiefs voted against the government\u2019s proposed $47.8 billion agreement at a meeting in Calgary. AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who had helped negotiate the deal and pushed for it to be approved, was blunt in her assessment of the outcome in her closing remarks to the special chiefs assembly last Friday. \u201cWe also recognize the success of the campaign that defeated this resolution. You spoke with passion, and you convinced the majority to vote against this $47.8-billion national agreement,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no getting around the fact that this agreement was too much of a threat to the… <\/p>\n

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-CP-The executive team from the Assembly of First Nations will meet in the coming days to discuss how to proceed with new negotiations for a child welfare reform deal after chiefs voted against the government\u2019s proposed $47.8 billion agreement at a meeting in Calgary. AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who had helped negotiate the deal and pushed for it to be approved, was blunt in her assessment of the outcome in her closing remarks to the special chiefs assembly last Friday. \u201cWe also recognize the success of the campaign that defeated this resolution. You spoke with passion, and you convinced the majority to vote against this $47.8-billion national agreement,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no getting around the fact that this agreement was too much of a threat to the... <\/p>\n

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