Indigenous services minister says First Nations support for developments ‘critical’
By Canadian Press on June 3, 2025.
OTTAWA — The federal minister of Indigenous services says she and the other Indigenous members of cabinet support their party’s plan to fast-track infrastructure development — despite significant pushback from First Nations leaders.
Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says Prime Minister Mark Carney has “reaffirmed” First Nations will be included in discussions about projects the federal government could fast-track under pending legislation, and that their input is “critical” to allowing those projects to move forward.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak sent a letter to Carney on Friday about legislation the federal government is developing to speed up work on certain projects with a streamlined regulatory approval process.
In it, she said she fears the proposed legislation could violate the rights of First Nations people and undermine the treaties they signed with the Crown.
Gull-Masty says she’s “supportive” of Woodhouse Nepinak and that she’s “pushing that conversation forward in a critical way.”
Liberal MP Jaime Battiste, a member of his party’s Indigenous caucus, says his understanding is that all projects being examined now already have “buy-in” from Indigenous communities and will be the ones that are prioritized.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 3, 2025.
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press
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The First Nations are there all the time demanding more, more, more yet shut down every project that generates revenues that pay for their more, more, more!
It is time we cut off the $31 billion the feds pay to the First Nations-Inuit, and the billions more the provinces pay to them and show them that money just doesn’t fall from the sky!
In order to get those monies, revenues must be generated! Enough of the BS!
Your comment reveals that you are not informed and/or misinformed about the meaning of Treaty and the reality that unceded First Nations land is not in the possession of the Canadian state. Your comment also reveals a lack of knowledge concerning the Doctrine of Discovery, Terra Nullius and the goal of colonialism on the North American continent and around the world.