Ottawa has failed to expedite the process for Indigenous people to seek status and end delays in the application process under the Indian Act, say advocates
Retired senator Lillian Eva Dyck said she is not convinced that the federal government has “significantly or sufficiently” expedited its process for First Nations peoples to apply for status under the Indian Act, which is a requirement for First Nations peoplesOttawa has internally acknowledged that it created a complicated and lengthy process to apply for status and that it is not well understood, asrecently.
For more than 100 years, up until 1985, federal laws mandated that any First Nations woman who married a non-status man be stripped of her status. Legislative changes that year, as well as over the past decade, have attempted to remedy the harms of past laws, allowing certain people to be newly registered.
Advocates who testified Tuesday took issue with the federal government’s response to the committee’s recommendations, which Ottawa provided in late February. For instance, the government rejected a recommendation to repeal non-liability clauses that currently prevent the possibility of compensating women whose status was taken from them.
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