Adding UN declaration on Indigenous peoples on top of Canadian law will lead to legal chaos

VANCOUVER—The federal government should recognize that its plan to legislate a United Nations declaration conflicts with Canadian constitutional law and will likely cause legal chaos, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “Inserting yet more ambiguous language into Canadian law, which will inevitably affect the approval process for major infrastructure projects in Canada, is unwise and would likely lead to even more uncertainty,” said Tom Flanagan, Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of Squaring the Circle: Adopting UNDRIP in Canada.