June 1, 2025
\nOttawa, Ontario<\/p>\n
\u201cIndigenous Peoples have been stewards of Canada\u2019s lands and waters for time immemorial.\u00a0National Indigenous History Month is a time to celebrate the histories, cultures, languages, knowledge, and traditions of First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis Peoples.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndigenous leadership and perspectives will be foundational to how this government delivers its mandate. We will address past harms,\u00a0take a distinctions-based approach, and advance self-determination, while upholding Modern Treaties and self-government agreements.<\/p>\n
\u201cCentral to this commitment is the long-term wealth and prosperity of First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis. To that end, we have doubled the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program from $5\u00a0billion to $10\u00a0billion \u2013 and opened it to sectors outside of energy and natural resources to catalyze more Indigenous-led infrastructure, transportation, and trade projects across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Canada moves forward with nation-building projects, the government will be firmly guided by the principle of free, prior, and informed consent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will work in full partnership with Indigenous Peoples \u2013 advancing shared priorities from health care, food security, housing, and education to conservation, climate action, and emergency management. We move forward on the important work of the calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission\u2019s Final Report, the\u00a0National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls\u2019 Calls for Justice, and the implementation of the\u00a0United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 1, 2025 Ottawa, Ontario \u201cIndigenous Peoples have been stewards of Canada\u2019s lands and waters for time immemorial.\u00a0National Indigenous History Month is a time to celebrate the histories, cultures, languages, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":74249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 08:45:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74237,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74236\/revisions\/74237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}