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Indigenous Peoples and Nations

Self-determination platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal
  • Support Indigenous-led process for advancing self-determination and jurisdiction in areas such as education, health, child and family services, and community safety and policing

    "Support Indigenous-led processes for advancing self-determination and the exercise of jurisdiction in priority areas such as education, health, child and family services as well as community safety and policing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Increase lands added to reserves within the next four years, and speed up additions

    "Increase lands added to reserves within the next four years and work with First Nations to accelerate additions to reserve." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

Conservative
  • Establish a Nation-to-Nation consultation process for major legislation and projects directly impacting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis

Bloc
  • Défendre l’autodétermination des Autochtones et travailler de concert avec ceux-ci pour s’assurer qu’Ottawa respecte la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones dans ses juridictions
  • Imaginer un avenir sans la Loi sur les Indiens selon la volonté des Autochtones

    Le Bloc Québécois réitère que le plus grand obstacle à l’autodétermination des Premières Nations, selon nous, est la Loi sur les Indiens et il sera un allié pour quiconque souhaite imaginer un avenir sans celle-ci, dans le respect de la volonté des Autochtones.

  • Financer des corps policiers autochtones

    Il continuera de pour mettre fin au sous-financement fédéral des corps policiers autochtones, encore plus urgent depuis qu’Ottawa songe à transformer le mandat de la GRC.

  • Favoriser l’autonomie gouvernementale des communautés autochtones ainsi que les partenariats et ententes de cogestion
  • Entretenir et privilégier des relations de nation à nation avec les communautés autochtones

NDP
  • Support First Nations building or re-building their governance structures

    "We will recognize and respect treaties, and we will support any Nations building or re-building their governance structures." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Recognise Métis self-determination and pursue government-to-government negotiations on issues like self-government, education, housing, and health
  • Respect Inuit self-determination and co-develop the Arctic Policy Framework

    "We will respect Inuit self-determination, co-developing the Arctic Policy Framework and addressing the massive infrastructure deficit in Northern communities." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Ensure equitable access and self-determination over land, culture, language, housing, childcare, income security, employment, education, and health

    "We will ensure equitable access and self-determination over land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, and physical, mental, sexual, and spiritual health." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Ensure Indigenous leadership is at the table and part of any decision-making regarding trade negotiations with the United States

    "We will ensure that Indigenous leadership are at the table and part of any decision-making when it comes to Canada’s trade negotiations with Donald Trump’s administration." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Fund on-reserve emergency management and prevention, including firefighting

Green
  • Support Indigenous-led alternatives to incarceration

    "Confront the systemic over-incarceration of Indigenous Peoples— especially Indigenous women — through a coordinated justice strategy grounded in Indigenous self-determination. This includes supporting Indigenous-led alternatives to incarceration and dismantling the colonial systems that disproportionately criminalize and imprison Indigenous Peoples (see Justice)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Work with Indigenous communities to reduce RCMP involvement in community policing, and replace with Indigenous-created and led law enforcement mechanisms

    "Collaborate with Indigenous communities to reduce RCMP involvement in community policing, and replace with Indigenous-created and led law enforcement mechanisms; Re-allocate police funding to social services and mental health support." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Support Nation-to-Nation partnerships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governing institutions

    "Support Nation-to-Nation partnerships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governing institutions, ensuring meaningful, equitable, and respectful collaboration — including full participation in national decision-making through the Council of Canadian Governments (see Council of Canadian Governments)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Formally reject the colonial doctrines of terra nullius and discovery

    "Formally reject the colonial doctrines of terra nullius and discovery, affirming that Canada was built on Indigenous lands whose rights and sovereignty must be respected." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Establish an Indigenous-led process to transition from colonial governance structures to self-determined Indigenous governance models
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  • Create a permanent Council of Canadian Governments, replacing First Ministers' meetings with a collaborative forum for federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, and Indigenous governments to work together

    "Establish a permanent Council of Canadian Governments, replacing traditional First Ministers’ meetings with a collaborative forum where federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, and Indigenous governments set national priorities and tackle common challenges together." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Formally recognise Indigenous sovereignty over self-defined and self-governed lands

    "Formally recognize Indigenous sovereignty over self-defined and self-governed lands, ensuring full jurisdiction and self-determination." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Identify federal and Crown lands suitable for transfer to Indigenous ownership

    "Identify federal and Crown lands suitable for transfer to Indigenous ownership, following Supreme Court rulings such as Tsilhqot’in Nation, to support land restitution." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Explicitly recognise and support Inuit sovereignty over Inuit Nunangat

    "Explicitly recognize and support Inuit sovereignty over Inuit Nunangat, empowering Inuit-led governance." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Expand stable, multi-year funding for Indigenous-led services, including Friendship Centres and community-driven organisations providing essential services
  • Affirm First Nations jurisdiction over policing and co-develop federal legislation to support Indigenous-created and led law enforcement, with long-term equitable funding

    "Affirm First Nations jurisdiction over policing by recognizing it as an essential service and co-developing federal legislation to support Indigenous-created and led law enforcement systems, with long-term, equitable funding." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

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