Adopted by most countries back in
2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP) faced but a handful of holdouts: the
USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Flash forward to last week,
when a senior Canadian politician said his government was
developing a so-called "Canadian definition" of at least some
portions of UNDRIP, including the bedrock notion of free,
prior and informed Indigenous consent. Helping us to decipher what
that could mean going forward is Hayden King, Director of the
Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.
// Our opening and closing
theme is 'nesting' by Birocratic.
MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs