Justice

Understanding urban Indigenous realities is vital to effective public policy, legislative development and program and funding decisions. Friendship Centers assist with access to justice by providing urban Indigenous people with culturally safe and wraparound services. The National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) advocates for justice locally, provincially, nationally, and internationally.

Past Submissions and Testimonies

•  The Friendship Centre Movement & Canada’s Distinctions-Based Approach to Indigenous Self-Determination (eng/fr) (2020)
• June 22, 2021: Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs:
• Sex trafficking of Indigenous Peoples

• February 18, 2021: Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST):
  • Controlling or coersive conduct within intimate relationships

• May 9, 2018: Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples

• The New Relationship Between Canada and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis
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• March 8, 2016: Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
• Briefing and Friendship Centre Movement Priorities
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• April 30, 2002: Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
• Access, provision, and delivery of services, policy and jurisdictional issues, employment and education, access to economic opportunities, youth participation and empowerment, and other related matters
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