A Federal Judge Calls Canada's Follow-Through on a Manitoba First Nations Land Agreement 'Simply Not Acceptable'
A landmark agreement with a group of Manitoba First Nations was meant to resolve historic treaty land shortages. A federal judge recently said the way Canada has continued to shirk its responsibilities to those nations since signing it is simply not acceptable, CBC reports — a court describing a signed deal as unfinished business rather than a settled one.
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Separate the deal from the delivery. The agreement was meant to fix historic treaty land shortages; the judge's finding is about what happened — or didn't — after the signing.
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Those two things aren't really separable. A rebuke aimed at a government's responsibilities under the agreement is a verdict on the deal's delivery, not a footnote to it — the promise is the thing being measured.