The Northern Native Rights Campaign was organized by the Project North ecumenical coalition, with participation of the Conference’s Social Affairs Department, to raise public awareness about the concerns of the northern Native peoples for aboriginal nationhood in the context of constitutional debate about the political future of the country. The […]
The Conference’s Social Affairs Commission and its Human Rights Committee wrote to the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development expressing concern about the government’s plan not to renew the freeze on mining exploration in the Baker Lake region of the Northwest Territories and about the possibility that uranium companies […]
The Upper Canadian Province of the Jesuits (the English Canadian Jesuits) established an Indian Lay Permanent Deacon program and opened an Ojibway Theological Centre at Spanish, ON.
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner regarding the Proposed Polar Gas Project to bring natural gas from the High Arctic to southern Canada. The Canadian Church leaders’ 1976 statement Justice Demands Action was attached to […]
Presentation of a brief to the National Energy Board hearings on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline by the Social Affairs Commission Chair.
Statement of Evidence by the Project North inter-church coalition before the Berger Commission, entitled “A Call for a Moratorium: Some Moral and Ethical Considerations in Relation to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline”.
The Conference’s Social Affairs Commission sent a Telex message to the prime minister promoting postponement of offshore drilling rights in the Beaufort Sea until adequate safeguards were taken to protect environment and consultation with Native communities affected.
Presentation of a brief to the federal government’s Berger Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry hearings in Yellowknife. Entitled Colonial Patterns of Resource Development: A Case Study of the Native Peoples’ Struggle in the Amazon Basin of Brazil and its Implications for the Northwest Territories, the study was prepared jointly by the […]
The National Week for Northwest Territories Land Claims saw teams of Indian, Metis and Inuit spokespersons from NWT move across the country telling the story of their struggle for a just settlement on their land claims. Some members of the CCCB Social Affairs Commission took part by speaking at various […]
The Conference’s Social Affairs Department participated in the creation of the ecumenical Inter-church Project on Northern Development, also known as Project North. It focused on treaty and Aboriginal rights and the just settlement of land claims and promoted the search for equitable forms of development in response to proposals for […]