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The front-runners in the federal election are not addressing Aboriginal issues in their race for Prime Minister, Native leaders across Canada say.

None of the parties are meeting the expectations of Aboriginal leaders, said Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi as he emerged from a day-long, closed session meetings with several assembly chiefs.

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The front-runners in the federal election are not addressing Aboriginal issues in their race for Prime Minister, Native leaders across Canada say.

None of the parties are meeting the expectations of Aboriginal leaders, said Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi as he emerged from a day-long, closed session meetings with several assembly chiefs.

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The front-runners in the federal election are not addressing Aboriginal issues in their race for Prime Minister, Native leaders across Canada say.

None of the parties are meeting the expectations of Aboriginal leaders, said Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi as he emerged from a day-long, closed session meetings with several assembly chiefs.

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The front-runners in the federal election are not addressing Aboriginal issues in their race for Prime Minister, Native leaders across Canada say.

None of the parties are meeting the expectations of Aboriginal leaders, said Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi as he emerged from a day-long, closed session meetings with several assembly chiefs.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.

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The time for supporting the Indian Act has long passed, says the Chief of the Native Council of Nova Scotia.

"Use it to move people through the transition period to self-government," said Dwight Dory.

The enforcement of the Indian Act created an artificial method of establishing citizenship, which is up to Natives to correct, said Dory, himself a Bill C-31 Indian.

You can't have it both ways - you can't say we have an inherent right to self-government and on the other hand support a foreign government's legislation classifying our people," said Dory.