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A CCCB Plenary Assembly session was entitled After Oka. There was a proposal by the Social Affairs Commission to prepare an information kit to serve as an education tool concerning Native issues.

The chair of the Social Affairs Commission appealed to the Mohawks, the Quebec Government and the Federal Government for immediate peaceful solutions in the Oka situation, including removal of barricades, refraining from use of armed intervention, and pursuit of a just settlement of the Mohawk claims.

CCCB President, the Most Rev. Bernard Hubert, representing the CCCB at the march for “Peace and Justice” held at Oka, issued the statement “Achieving Peace at Oka”.

The Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister urging a just and moral solution to the conflict at Oka.

The President of the CCCB wrote to the prime minister concerning constitutional recognition of the rights of Aboriginal Peoples.

The President of the CCCB wrote to the prime minister about the government’s decision to cut funding for post-secondary education of Native students.

The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the ministers of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and National Defence congratulating them for meeting with Innu leaders who wished to find a just solution to their territorial claims.

The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the ministers of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and National Defence, protesting the arrest of Innu leaders including six women and their pastor and urging the government to meet with Innu leaders in an effort to resolve conflict over low-level flights […]

Establishment of the CCCB Council for Reconciliation, Solidarity and Communion (now the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council) to manage the Fund for Reconciliation Solidarity and Communion. It was directed by Bishops and Aboriginal Catholics and provides grants to projects and initiatives.