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A couple of weeks ago, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon suggested that a Native parliament may be the next step in securing Native self-government.

The national Native political body would probably not be a parliament in the constitutional sense. An Aboriginal parliament would instead consist of Native officials administering programs for Native people through the same sort of representative democracy that the non-Native provincial and federal systems currently use. That way, Natives at the community level would decide who would represent them.

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A couple of weeks ago, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon suggested that a Native parliament may be the next step in securing Native self-government.

The national Native political body would probably not be a parliament in the constitutional sense. An Aboriginal parliament would instead consist of Native officials administering programs for Native people through the same sort of representative democracy that the non-Native provincial and federal systems currently use. That way, Natives at the community level would decide who would represent them.

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A couple of weeks ago, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon suggested that a Native parliament may be the next step in securing Native self-government.

The national Native political body would probably not be a parliament in the constitutional sense. An Aboriginal parliament would instead consist of Native officials administering programs for Native people through the same sort of representative democracy that the non-Native provincial and federal systems currently use. That way, Natives at the community level would decide who would represent them.

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A couple of weeks ago, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon suggested that a Native parliament may be the next step in securing Native self-government.

The national Native political body would probably not be a parliament in the constitutional sense. An Aboriginal parliament would instead consist of Native officials administering programs for Native people through the same sort of representative democracy that the non-Native provincial and federal systems currently use. That way, Natives at the community level would decide who would represent them.

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Protesters at a year-old road block in northwest Saskatchwan are refusing to leave their camp site, even in the face of a court-ordered eviction.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice J. Wimmer ruled May 12 that the Protectors of Mother Earth Society must vacate their Wiggins Bay Road Turnoff campsite within 15 days, if an appeal was not launched or face an eviction.

But society members decided not to appeal.

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Protesters at a year-old road block in northwest Saskatchwan are refusing to leave their camp site, even in the face of a court-ordered eviction.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice J. Wimmer ruled May 12 that the Protectors of Mother Earth Society must vacate their Wiggins Bay Road Turnoff campsite within 15 days, if an appeal was not launched or face an eviction.

But society members decided not to appeal.

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Protesters at a year-old road block in northwest Saskatchwan are refusing to leave their camp site, even in the face of a court-ordered eviction.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice J. Wimmer ruled May 12 that the Protectors of Mother Earth Society must vacate their Wiggins Bay Road Turnoff campsite within 15 days, if an appeal was not launched or face an eviction.

But society members decided not to appeal.

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Protesters at a year-old road block in northwest Saskatchwan are refusing to leave their camp site, even in the face of a court-ordered eviction.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice J. Wimmer ruled May 12 that the Protectors of Mother Earth Society must vacate their Wiggins Bay Road Turnoff campsite within 15 days, if an appeal was not launched or face an eviction.

But society members decided not to appeal.

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"Bill C-31 has instilled awareness among Canadians of the government's different laws for Natives, those that exist for non-Native people, and the still different laws that are especially prejudicial and discriminatory laws for Native women."

This statement was made by Vicki English-Currie at the women's issues forum presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples held in Calgary May 26 and 27.

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"Bill C-31 has instilled awareness among Canadians of the government's different laws for Natives, those that exist for non-Native people, and the still different laws that are especially prejudicial and discriminatory laws for Native women."

This statement was made by Vicki English-Currie at the women's issues forum presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples held in Calgary May 26 and 27.