AFN Regional Chiefs to Represent First Nations at Meeting with Carney, Premiers
The gathering will include 28 seats in the main room and 44 additional First Nations leaders as talks cover rights, treaties and major projects.
- AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak invited Prime Minister Mark Carney and provincial leaders to a daylong cultural ceremony preceding their Oct. 26 meeting in Ottawa, the first such gathering between chiefs and first ministers in decades.
- Woodhouse Nepinak and her predecessors have long requested First Nations representation at prime minister-premier meetings, with calls intensifying last year when governments began discussing fast-tracking major infrastructure projects.
- The Oct. 26 meeting will seat 28 leaders—one prime minister, one national chief, 13 provincial and territorial leaders, and 13 First Nations representatives—to address governance, rights, treaties, health care, policing, land, and economic prosperity.
- Woodhouse Nepinak called the gathering a "big test" of Canada's ability to reconcile economic growth with First Nations rights, while the AFN seeks 44 interchangeable entry passes to accommodate more leaders.
- Promised by Carney earlier this year, the meeting aims to advance nation-to-nation relations and provide an opportunity for the federal government, provinces, and First Nations to address shared priorities.
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The regional leaders of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will join provincial premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney for an exceptional meeting to be held at the end of October — the first meeting of this kind between chiefs and prime ministers in decades.
AFN regional chiefs to represent First Nations at meeting with Carney and premiers
Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs will join premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney for a rare meeting in late October — the first such meeting between chiefs and first ministers in decades.
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AFN regional chiefs to represent First Nations at meeting with Carney, premiers
OTTAWA - Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs will join premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney for a rare meeting in late October — the first such meeting between chiefs
AFN invites premiers, Carney to ceremony ahead of October meeting
By Alessia Passafiume The Assembly of First Nations has invited premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney to a daylong ceremony ahead of their October meeting. The premiers, Carney and First Nations representatives are set to meet in Ottawa on Oct. 26 — the first such gathering in decades — just as tensions are rising over the federal and provincial governments’ major projects agenda. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said First Nations leade…
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