From WarrenKinsella.com
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January 14, 2006 - How very ironic.
The First Nations Governance Act: remember that? One of the best Ministers of Indian and Northern Affairs since Jean Chrétien - a tough, honest Northern Ontario boy named Bob Nault - brought in that Act. As someone who practices aboriginal law and loves it, I can tell you that Nault's Act provided for much-needed accountability and transparency at the band level. It was the right thing to do. The legislation was the product of a lot of bloody hard work by Nault and his officials, some of whom I have been privileged to know (and work with).
In one of his first acts in his disastrous reign as Prime Minister, Paul Martin killed that Act. That decision, like most of Martin's reign, was long on politics and short on policy. It was a disgrace.
And now this: the Congress - and the Harper Tories - have signaled that they want to see Nault's Act brought back. Amazing.
In case you are counting, this represents reason 1,265 why I am not worried about a Harper government: he's stealing good Liberal ideas and making them his own.
Somewhere, Bob Nault (and Jean Chrétien, perhaps) must be smiling. I know I am.
Maybe the 'Indians' should pay attention a litte more, ya think?
