VANCOUVER—Canada must adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in a way that translates into real change for its aboriginal citizens, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says.
She told an annual gathering of British Columbia cabinet ministers and First Nations leaders on Sept. 7 that it’s important to appreciate why Canada cannot simply incorporate the declaration “word for word” into law.
“The hard and sometimes painful truth is that many of our current realities do not align with the standards of the United Nations declaration, and as such they must be systemically and coherently dismantled,” she said.
Many of our current realities do not align with the standards of the United Nations declaration.
