{"id":3424,"date":"2017-04-26T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:53:33","slug":"understanding-indian-act-policy-options-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/2017\/understanding-indian-act-policy-options-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Indian Act – Policy Options Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Policy Options<\/em>\u00a0Workshop<\/h1>\n

Understanding the<\/strong> Indian Act<\/strong><\/em>
\nApril 28, 2017, Ottawa<\/p>\n

The federal government recently announced it would review the laws and policies related to Indigenous people, and it has struck\u00a0a cabinet working group to lead the task. Of these laws, the 141-year-old Indian Act <\/em>stands out as one of the most complex and most reviled. What is the history behind this colonial law?\u00a0How does it function? Is there any hope we will will be able to\u00a0remove\u00a0it from the books and replace\u00a0it with a framework that better reflects a nation-to-nation relationship?<\/p>\n

Three experts will help answer our basic questions about the Act, with the aim of building knowledge around this\u00a0key policy question facing our country. Click here to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frances Abele<\/strong> is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and academic director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation.\u00a0 She has worked with the Centre for First Nations Governance as well as other think tanks and research institutes, and was deputy director of research for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.<\/p>\n

Douglas Sanderson<\/strong> is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.\u00a0 He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Toronto and his LL.M at Columbia University, where he was Fulbright fellow.<\/p>\n

Roger D. Jones<\/strong> is a council member of the Sagamok Anishnawbek, Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory. Now an independent consultant, he worked as a legal and policy adviser for the Ontario Regional Chief \/Chiefs of Ontario, as senior legal counsel for the Assembly of First Nations, and as an assistant professor at the University of Sudbury\u2019s Native Studies Department. He is a founding president of the Indigenous Bar Association.<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer Ditchburn<\/strong> is the editor-in-chief of Policy Options<\/em>, the IRPP\u2019s online magazine. An award-winning journalist, she spent more than two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for The Canadian Press and for CBC Television. She is a three-time winner of a National Newspaper Award and the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues. She is the co-editor (with Graham Fox) of The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister\u2019s Policy Legacy<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n

For more information, please contact Suzanne Lambert at\u00a0(514) 787-0746 or\u00a0slambert@irpp.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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