e-514 (Aboriginal women)
- Keywords
- Aboriginal rights
- McIvor v. Canada
- Women
Original language of petition: English
Petition to Justin Trudeau
- The federal Indian Act discriminates against Indian women based on sex and marital status by denying Band membership to Indian women who married into other Bands, along with the first and second-generation children of these women;
- This legal barrier prevents 10,000 Indian women, their 40,000 children, and their 60,000 grandchildren from returning to their community, family, culture, tradition and languages; and
- By delegating Band membership control to Chiefs and Councils, Canada delegated sex and marriage discrimination to one of its creatures, contrary to human rights legislation.
- Open for signature
- August 17, 2016, at 8:20 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- December 15, 2016, at 8:20 a.m. (EDT)