The NDP Monday backed calls to Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan to set up a fact-finding mission to a small Quebec Algonquin community caught in a leadership vacuum since the imposition of an Indian Act band council earlier this year.
A blue ribbon panel is expected to soon begin studying ways to improve on-reserve education with a report and recommendations on their findings expected sometime in the middle of 2011, Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan said Thursday.
The federal government is considering calling in a reserve military unit with a large Aboriginal component as one of several options to help a beleaguered northern Ontario Ojibway reserve whose chief recently issued a national plea for help over escalating drug-fuelled violence.
