Twenty Years and Ticking: Aboriginal Women, Human Rights and Bill C-31
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandra Delaronde
Morgan Albl
Margaret Haworth-Brockman
Description
Bill was meant to correct gender-discrimination with respect to loss of Status, for both women and their children, due to marriage to non-Status men. Amendment created new issues in terms of band membership, two-tiered system of Status and second-generation cut-off rule, and insufficient funding for First Nations to provide housing and services to new registrants.