Chiefs from First Nations communities across the country have banded together to petition Canada to annul all current treaties, and then renegotiate and re-sign the agreements with the Minister for Middle Class Prosperity instead.
“Since this creation of this critical cabinet position in 2019, we as First Nations have been awestruck by the Minister’s mandate,” said Elaine Crowshoe, chief of the Glass Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan.
“Why do we have treaties with the Crown when there is someone in government responsible for those that ‘can send their kids to play hockey or even have different activities. It’s having the cost of living where you can do what you want with your family’ as the Minister for Middle Class Prosperity so eloquently put it.”
Although over three-quarters of the country’s 366 First Nations have joined the call to sign treaties with the Minister for Middle Class Prosperity, whom they call the ‘lynchpin for reconciliation,’ there’s no word from the federal government as to whether they will consider the request.