LEAF Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)
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Author/Creator
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)
Description
Gives reasons for recommendation that the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to remove all sex discrimination from the status provisions of the Act. Argues that in its present form, fails to meet the Government of Canada's constitutional obligations to Indigenous women.