By Alessia Passafiume The newly appointed Indigenous advisory council marks the start \u2014 not the end \u2014 of talks with community leaders on how to move the government’s major projects agenda forward, Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty said on Thursday On Wednesday, 11 Indigenous leaders from across the country were named to the federal government\u2019s new Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Council tasked with advising the new federal body working to fast-track major infrastructure projects. While First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis representatives were selected, some Indigenous groups, including the Southern Chiefs Organization in Manitoba, raised concerns about the makeup of the council and the lack of representation from their nations. “Our province has the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada, yet our Nations are entirely absent,” Southern Chiefs Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels… <\/p>\n
By Alessia Passafiume The newly appointed Indigenous advisory council marks the start \u2014 not the end \u2014 of talks with community leaders on how to move the government’s major projects agenda forward, Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty said on Thursday On Wednesday, 11 Indigenous leaders from across the country were named to the federal government\u2019s new Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Council tasked with advising the new federal body working to fast-track major infrastructure projects. While First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis representatives were selected, some Indigenous groups, including the Southern Chiefs Organization in Manitoba, raised concerns about the makeup of the council and the lack of representation from their nations. “Our province has the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada, yet our Nations are entirely absent,” Southern Chiefs Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels... <\/p>\n