e-2053 (Aboriginal affairs)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-65-14 Government Response to petitions concerning aboriginal affairs
- Aboriginal peoples
- Discrimination
- Indian Act
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Quebec Native Women was founded in 1974 to combat gender-based discrimination in the Indian Act;
- Forty-five years later, the Indian Act still discriminates against Indigenous women and their descendants, despite the amendments made over the years in bills C-31, C-3 and S-3;
- The United Nations Human Rights Committee found that this discrimination violates the equality rights and cultural rights of Indigenous women and their descendants;
- The Indian Act is an archaic, patriarchal and assimilationist law that no longer serves a purpose; and
- The federal government promised to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Open for signature
- February 8, 2019, at 2:37 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 8, 2019, at 2:37 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
-
Alexandre Boulerice
(Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie)
June 19, 2019 (Petition No. 421-04690) - Government response tabled
- August 21, 2019