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On Wednesday, a coalition made up of a First Nation and environmental groups launched a legal challenge against Ottawa and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories over the issuing of Species at Risk Act (SARA) permits to the company.
Legal challenges against a nuclear waste facility slated for construction near the Ottawa River continue to rise.
The case filed by Kebaowek First Nation this week argues the approval should be set aside or reconsidered and sets the stage for a legal test of how much sway the United Nations Declaration Act holds in Canadian courts.
Stephen Buffalo, president and CEO of the Indian Resource Council of Canada (IRC), is not applauding the federal government’s recent announcement that subsidies will continue to flow to First Nations to support their economic participation in fossil fuel activities.
Process is what the federal government’s action plan for the United Nations Declaration Act (UNDA) is all about, said Jody Wilson-Raybould on July 13, the final day of the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly in Halifax. And that’s not enough, because “the action plan continues the pattern of process over substance,” said the former Justice minister and attorney general in the Justin Trudeau Liberal government about Canada’s legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.