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                       AMNSIS 2025 ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

                                 SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER  2025

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Bill C-29

is an Act to provide for the establishment of a National Council for Reconciliation. The act was amended by the Senate Committee to include the Congress of Aboriginal People (CAP) on the National Council for Reconciliation.

CAP is an Indigenous organization that has been a recognized & funded by the federal government since 1971.

The Act, Bill C-29 can be found at the the following link.

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-29

The debate in the Senate today was about the removal and exclusion of the Congress of Aboriginal People from the National Council for Reconciliation. The following link takes you to the debate.

https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230427/-1/12073?mediaStartTime=20230427151016&mediaEndTime=20230427152550&viewMode=3&globalStreamId=16

News Stories links

http://www.watertoday.ca/ts-fn-interview-charlene-lavallee-amnsis.asp

https://www.meridiansource.ca/border-city-metis-builds-kinship/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/indigenous-leaders-against-heritage-designation-of-lower-hudson-house-1.6561302

https://www.mbcradio.com/2021/11/other-organizations-looking-to-vet-metis-ancestry-alongside-mn-s