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Statements for the inquiry were gathered from across Canada from May 2017 to December 2018. [4]After a pre-formal public hearing (meant as a "truth-gathering" advisory meeting) in April 2017, complaints by observers began to arise about the inquiry's terms of reference, its composition and administration, and a perceived lack of transparency.
The Indian Department was established in 1755 to oversee relations between the British Empire and the First Nations of North America. The imperial government ceded control of the Indian Department to the Province of Canada in 1860, thus setting the stage for the development of the present-day Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
An inquiry called by the federal government into matters of national concern are known in Canada as royal commissions or commissions of inquiry. These consist of a panel of distinguished individuals, experts, or judges convened by the governor-in-Council (the governor general acting on the advice of Cabinet) to look into and secure advice for an issue of general importance or to fully ...
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The inquiry commenced in 2016, and concluded on June 3, 2019, [46] and included numerous recommendations for addressing the "endemic violence" faced by Indigenous women in Canada. [ 46 ] Reconciliation (#43) — Adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : Bill C-15 was passed on June 16, 2021, in its ...
The accusations came more than a year after Canada linked India's government to the murder of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in a Vancouver suburb. Canada expels Indian diplomats over ...
A public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body. In many common law countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada, such an inquiry differs from a royal commission in that a public inquiry accepts evidence and conducts its hearings in a more public forum ...
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC; French: Services aux Autochtones Canada; SAC) [NB 1] is one of two departments in the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada (the other being Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada). ISC's mandate is to work "collaboratively with partners ...