How UNDRIP Is Affecting Canada

L-R) Then-Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde, then-Justice Minister David Lametti, and president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Natan Obed participate in an announcement about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Ottawa on Dec. 3, 2020. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a non-binding resolution from an international body. Even so, it is exerting a tangible influence in Canada on issues ranging from a move in B.C. to rename streets, towns, and cities, to a push to grant rivers “legal personhood.”