Canada wants delay to key aboriginal UN treaty

[Eugene]

Canada wants delay to key aboriginal UN treaty

By David Ljunggren
Reuters
Monday, June 19, 2006; 4:29 PM

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Monday it wanted the United Nations to delay a vote
on a key draft treaty enshrining the rights of indigenous peoples, a document which has
already taken 20 years to put together.

Political opponents accused Canada's Conservative government of trying to sabotage the
treaty, which is supposed to be adopted soon by the U.N's new Human Rights Council in
Geneva.

But Ottawa, which said the treaty could wreck talks on granting its native Indians
control of land and resources, said it wanted two more years of discussions.

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Separately, officials said Canada would vote against the document unless major changes
were made. The draft treaty is opposed by the United States, Australia and New Zealand,
which like Canada have significant aboriginal populations.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061900797.html

[TomInTib]

1. The Inuit issue has them scared spitless.

This has major potential impact (all negative) for the government of Canada.

[CountAllVotes]

2. I agree

They've stolen enough. There are so very few left.

Give them what is theirs back to keep once and for all.

:kick:

[AlamoDemoc]

3. can you say the "Coalition of Theivery"?

"The draft treaty is opposed by the United States, Australia and New Zealand,
which like Canada have significant aboriginal populations."

[rumpel]

4. Shame on all these governments. n/t

[daleo]

5. The Liberal government had arrived at a historic deal with native peoples

The Harper Conservatives are scuttling that deal.

[applegrove]

6. Some of PM's "brain trust" want all aboriginal rights to be erased.

Cause they must hate negotiating the rights for pipelines and all.

Really - some yahoo wrote a book on the topic.

Very scary group in Ottawa.

[HuffleClaw]

7. no surpise whatsoever considering our bushista neocon prime minister

who would like nothing more than to deprive natives of the rights that they've fought for over the years. our 'new' conservatives are anti-... ...well, anti-everything that isn't white and male and conservative and at least upper middle class. they are a real horror.