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OTTAWA -Indigenous Services Canada will appeal a Federal Court ruling that limits First Nations ability to postpone the election of chiefs and councils during the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said.
Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller holds a press conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 7, 2020. Miller says his department will appeal a Federal Court ruling that limits First Nations ability to postpone the election of chiefs and councils during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller holds a press conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 7, 2020. Miller says his department will appeal a Federal Court ruling that limits First Nations ability to postpone the election of chiefs and councils during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA –
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says his department will appeal a Federal Court ruling that limits First Nations’ ability to postpone the election of chiefs and councils during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous Services Canada developed regulations last year to allow First Nation councils to delay elections and extend the terms of their chiefs and councillors to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Despite fears expressed by many in Canada and around the world about the heightened vulnerability Indigenous communities faced from COVID 19, members of those communities–at least the ones living in Canada, it appears–have managed to sidestep the worst of those predictions.
(The 2016 census found that Indigenous peoples in Canada totalled 1,673,785 people, or 4.9% of the national population, with 977,230 First Nations people, 587,545 Métis, and 65,025 Inuit.)
And, the new figures suggest, that COVID-19 cases on reserves in Canada have dropped more than 85 per cent since January.
Elders at the Wikwemikong Nursing Home in Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario took to social media in March to share the importance of social distancing and self-isolation during the global COVID-19 pandemic. A Statistics Canada study released in June found that 60 per cent of Indigenous people said their mental health has worsened since the onset o
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