Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away their power over water, resource development for continued funding

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Aboriginal Affairs say it’s not forcing First Nations to sign anything on Bills C-38 and C-45. But it doesn’t say anything about Bills C-27 or S-8.

“Some of the bills that were passed on Bill C-45 and C-27 are all put into our contribution agreement and we’re saying we’re not going to sign it because it hasn’t even gotten royal assent, it hasn’t even become law and yet they’re saying we’re breaking the law if we don’t sign it, so therefore the Canadian government is more ways than one manipulating First Nations into signing a contribution agreement which they need to provide programs to their First Nation. I don’t think it’s right,” Mr. Adam said. 

He said, however, that some First Nations are reluctantly signing the agreements because they need the money even though they don’t agree with some of the conditions. “The First Nations are saying no to some stuff in there, and yet they’re signing into it through this contribution agreement, so what Canada will say is that ‘look, they have no issues because they signed the contribution agreement, everything we put forward, they’ve signed onto over here.’ Well, they’re blackmailing us into signing it. That’s what they’re doing.”

Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away their power over water, resource development for continued funding