Indigenous Peoples and Nations

Self-determination platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Support Indigenous-led process for advancing self-determination and jurisdiction in areas such as education, health, child and family services, and community safety and policing

    "Support Indigenous-led processes for advancing self-determination and the exercise of jurisdiction in priority areas such as education, health, child and family services as well as community safety and policing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Increase lands added to reserves within the next four years, and speed up additions

    "Increase lands added to reserves within the next four years and work with First Nations to accelerate additions to reserve." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

Conservative

  • Establish a Nation-to-Nation consultation process for major legislation and projects directly impacting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis

Bloc

  • Défendre l’autodétermination des Autochtones et travailler de concert avec ceux-ci pour s’assurer qu’Ottawa respecte la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones dans ses juridictions
  • Imaginer un avenir sans la Loi sur les Indiens selon la volonté des Autochtones

    Le Bloc Québécois réitère que le plus grand obstacle à l’autodétermination des Premières Nations, selon nous, est la Loi sur les Indiens et il sera un allié pour quiconque souhaite imaginer un avenir sans celle-ci, dans le respect de la volonté des Autochtones.

  • Financer des corps policiers autochtones

    Il continuera de pour mettre fin au sous-financement fédéral

    des corps policiers autochtones, encore plus urgent depuis

    qu’Ottawa songe à transformer le mandat de la GRC.

  • Favoriser l’autonomie gouvernementale des communautés autochtones ainsi que les partenariats et ententes de cogestion

NDP

  • Support First Nations building or re-building their governance structures

    "We will recognize and respect treaties, and we will support any Nations building or re-building their governance structures." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Respect Inuit self-determination and co-develop the Arctic Policy Framework

    "We will respect Inuit self-determination, co-developing the Arctic Policy Framework and addressing the massive infrastructure deficit in Northern communities." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Recognise Métis self-determination and pursue government-to-government negotiations on issues like self-government, education, housing, and health
  • Ensure equitable access and self-determination over land, culture, language, housing, childcare, income security, employment, education, and health

    "We will ensure equitable access and self-determination over land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, and physical, mental, sexual, and spiritual health." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Fund on-reserve emergency management and prevention, including firefighting
  • Ensure Indigenous leadership is at the table and part of any decision-making regarding trade negotiations with the United States

    "We will ensure that Indigenous leadership are at the table and part of any decision-making when it comes to Canada’s trade negotiations with Donald Trump’s administration." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

We don't have any Green policies on Self-determination.

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