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The third-Inter-American Indigenous Congress on the Environment and Economic development opened on Sept. 15 at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre to a small audience.

The purpose of the conference, said Ambassador Arthur Campeau, the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations for Environment and Sustainable Development, was to address those issues omitted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero.

Other outstanding issues of concern to Indigenous peoples in North, South and Central America were also to be discussed.

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The third-Inter-American Indigenous Congress on the Environment and Economic development opened on Sept. 15 at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre to a small audience.

The purpose of the conference, said Ambassador Arthur Campeau, the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations for Environment and Sustainable Development, was to address those issues omitted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero.

Other outstanding issues of concern to Indigenous peoples in North, South and Central America were also to be discussed.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.