Debate on the First Nations Education Act
Channel: Linda Duncan
Date: 02/05/2014

Speech presented on Bill C-33. First nations' communities have the overriding right to establish and deliver their own education programs within their cultural and language traditions for their children and their communities. The official opposition holds firm with the position that we must uphold the Constitution and international obligations and commitments, as well as our own personal commitment to first nations that we respect their right to assert self-government and to plan and deliver their own education program for their own families.