Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
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Date
1996-10
Authors
Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Dussault, Rene
Erasmus, Georges
Keyword
Aboriginal Peoples , Metis , Inuit , First Nations , Indigenous , Native peoples , Government relations , Social conditions
Abstract
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was estalished on 26 August 1991 by Order in Council P.C. 1991-1597 with the following mandate: "The Commission of Inquiry should investigate the evolution of the relationship among
aboriginal peoples (Indian, Inuit and Métis), the Canadian government, and Canadian
society as a whole. It should propose specific solutions, rooted in domestic and
international experience, to the problems which have plagued those relationships and
which confront aboriginal peoples today. The Commission should examine all issues
which it deems to be relevant to any or all of the aboriginal peoples of Canada..." (P.C. 1991-1597)