The Conservative government is pushing through portions of their tough-on-crime agenda under the cover of a national strategy to deal with the hundreds of murdered and missing Aboriginal women cases, opposition critics say.
Canada has taken an “untenable position” on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, says the United Nations official tasked with investigating Indigenous issues around the world.
An Akwesasne woman had reason to fear “retaliation” from the Canada Border Services Agency in response to her human rights complaint alleging border agents targeted her because she is Mohawk, according the chair of the Human Rights Tribunal hearing the case.
