Sentences with phrase «first nation governments»

We have also assisted First Nation governments with specific land claims and internal governance matters.

In Ontario, they now comprise nearly one third of First Nation government funds.

Municipal, Provincial and First Nations governments likely will not accept development projects that have not earned broad public consent.

Successive auditors general, as I've mentioned before, have observed that band councils or First Nations governments are required to do far more reporting than any local government is required to provide for continued funding.

John Duncan and Stephen Harper keep insisting that First Nations governments be accountable to Ottawa.

This resolution provides clarity that Canada must work with First Nations governments and ensure that all phases of the legislative process are guided by the standards set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples.

Many First Nations governments are increasingly assuming responsibility for land - use planning, whether through the Indian Act, the First Nations Land Management Act, or within the context of modern land claims agreements.

Take employment law: First Nations governments often face complex employment issues arising due to jurisdictional anomalies, overlapping political and administrative functions, and complex issues surrounding traditional laws, cultural norms, race and competency.

By way of example, despite working for a First Nations government a bus driver for an educational unit, an employment counsellor with an Ontario Works unitand a worker from a negotiation office were all found to have their employment governed by provincial laws.

The exercise of these powers — whether by the federal, provincial, or municipal governments or First Nations governments — generally falls within Administrative Law.

Students interested in acting as in - house counsel to First Nations governments, or providing governance advice to First Nations from the context of a private firm, should consider additional advanced elements of administrative law.

While most First Nations governments and their workers will likely be federally regulated (due to the exception that applies to organizations whose function is the provision of Aboriginal governance) discreet sub-units of their operations may prove to fall outside of this rule.

While many aspiring lawyers think of Aboriginal law as being practiced in the well - known Aboriginal law boutique firms, as I suggested in the first posting in this series, Aboriginal law is practiced in many other legal settings including government, banks, mainstream law firms and in - house positions within First Nations governments and industry.

She also served as a director of the First Nations» Land Advisory Board and chaired the First Nations Finance Authority, which provides financing, investment, and advisory services for First Nations governments.

They apply to workers under federal jurisdiction such as those employed in banks, telecom or broadcast firms, postal services, airlines, surface transportation, airports and seaports, grain handling facilities, nuclear facilities and First Nations governments.

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra has over ten years of experience as a lawyer in Vancouver representing First Nations governments and as a senior policy official at the City of Toronto.

From being an «organisation of representatives from regions» the AFN became an Organisation of First Nations Government Leaders.

Not exact matches

When Justin Trudeau's Liberals won an unexpected majority government last October, Canadian First Nations and environmentalists cheered, while oil and gas executives groaned.

Both the provincial and federal governments have pledged to secure an LNG niche for B.C. in Asia, and British Columbians, including First Nations have been a lot friendlier to natural gas than to Alberta's oilsands.

The duty to consult with First Nations resides with the Federal government — as Chief Justice McLachlin wrote in the 2004 Haida Nation v. British Columbia [2004] decision of the Supreme Court, «the ultimate legal responsibility for consultation and accommodation rests with the Crown.»

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the nation's opioid epidemic a public health emergency, the first time since 2010 that the federal government has designated such an emergency nationwide.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government has struck a deal with the Haisla First Nation that the province says could help fast track a liquefied natural gas plant near Kitimat.

Ellis Ross said the agreement gives the First Nation the certainty it was looking for around the government's LNG proposals.

If that's not enough choice, the university also offers four courses in development: strategic leadership, First Nations, peace — building, and international business, with courses on government, business and sustainability marketing coming in 2011.

Petronas acknowledged the B.C. government has «brought resolution to key policy matters,» such as establishing a tax regime for LNG firms, detailing offsets for greenhouse gas emissions and gaining support from First Nations.

If we're going to be talking about partnering with First Nations for developments in the area, we need to understand how that's different from negotiating with the government.

Intervening in regulators» and governments» decisions to permit new pipelines are environmental considerations and, in Canada, First Nations» desire to assert their territorial rights.

The government has said that transportation, waste water and First Nations infrastructure upgrades are all a priority and could receive the first phase of fFirst Nations infrastructure upgrades are all a priority and could receive the first phase of ffirst phase of funds.

At the same time, First Nations across the province were gaining unprecedented economic clout as the B.C. government began sharing resource revenues.

Salameh says Pacific Future has a project office staffed up and a preliminary design from an Italian engineering firm, and has initiated discussions with the B.C. and federal governments, first nations and Asian customers.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

Our Government recognizes the tremendous potential of Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit populations to strengthen the growing Canadian economy.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Kim is the owner of Kim Baird Strategic Consulting and offers First Nation related and strategic advice to industry, government and First Nations.

We convinced the government to redistribute 10 per cent of MacMillan Bloedel's logging tenures to First Nations and local communities.

Canada's high court backed B.C. First Nations demands for more consultation before government approves developments.

Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

In an interview, she touts the nearly 9,000 homes newly built in First Nations communities under the Trudeau government as an accomplishment.

In a recent speech on Indigenous issues at the United Nations, for instance, Trudeau said to make progress First Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.Nations, for instance, Trudeau said to make progress First Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.»

«This decision by the federal government is an important positive step towards the project ultimately moving forward, but there is still a lot of work to be done to satisfy the interests of communities and the First Nations,» said Black.

In Victoria this afternoon, Premier Gordon Campbell said the project would provide «hundreds and hundreds» of jobs to First Nations in the north, adding that government's job is to «try and find ways we can get the First Nations people engaged with pay cheques building the kind of economic future they need...»

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

In October, the Climate Leadership Team — an advisory group appointed by the government representing municipalities, First Nations, industry, academia, and think tanks — submitted its recommendations to the premier.

This strategy envisions a long - term and ongoing engagement by BC First Nations in China, through annual trade missions and the instalment of First Nations trade and investment experts in Government of British Columbia trade offices in Vancouver and China.

Senior elected officials and staff from all levels of governments will be invited, as will be First Nations and representatives of major stakeholder organizations.

In general, the First Nations political organizations in BC have been particularly active in undertaking activities to build relationships with Chinese businesses and government officials.

Although resetting and transforming the relationship with First Nations is a «foundational piece» of the power sharing agreement between the NDP and Green Party, the government has not kept this commitment at the centre of its responses to Kinder Morgan.

To this end, Trudeau made many promises to First Nations, including a commitment to review and repeal all of the laws imposed on First Nations by the former Conservative government led by Stephen Harper.

Horgan's government defended Clark's approval despite knowing there were bureaucrats who were pulled off the Kinder Morgan file by the Clark government because they objected to the way First Nation and Squamish concerns were being ignored.

In the meantime, the government could implement the spirit and intent of its commitment in the power sharing agreement by instructing the staff reviewing Kinder Morgan's permits to bend over backwards to engage affected First Nations on any issue, even if they tangentially involved.