Indigenous groups won’t meet provinces under current rules: Inuit leader
EDMONTON — Canada’s national Inuit leader says Indigenous groups are unlikely to appear at future provincial and territorial meetings under rules the premiers have developed.
“If nothing changes, we would not participate next year,” Natan Obed of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami said Tuesday.
Three of Canada’s main aboriginal organizations chose not to attend a meeting with the premiers on Monday before the leaders convened for their annual summer gathering. Those sitting out included Obed’s group, the Assembly of First Nations and the Metis National Council.
Obed said the boycott was due to ground rules set out in a letter from Yukon premier and council chairman Sandy Silver to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.