S-241Government of Canada
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Indian Act
Joint amendment to the Criminal Code and the Indian Act on the operation of Indigenous policing and traditional-justice processes. Clarifies the federal-Indigenous-provincial jurisdictional overlap that has frustrated First Nations police services and Indigenous-led restorative-justice programs.
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Clarifies how federal law, the Indian Act, and provincial policing rules interact when an Indigenous police service or Indigenous-led restorative-justice program is involved. Aimed at the long-standing jurisdictional gap that's left First Nations policing underfunded.
Issues this bill touches
- Indigenous Rights
Criminal Code + Indian Act amendments on First Nations hunting and fishing.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the Senate.
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Second reading in the Senate.
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Official source
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