CP News Alert: Ottawa names Indigenous advisory council on major projects

By Canadian Press on September 10, 2025.

OTTAWA — Eleven Indigenous leaders from across the country have been named to the federal government’s new Indigenous Peoples’ Council, tasked with advising the new federal body working to fast-track major infrastructure projects.

The federal government says the council will work with Indigenous Peoples to integrate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into government decision-making on major projects.

More coming.

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press

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