Congress of Aboriginal Peoples

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On June 18, 2008, Bill C-21, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) was passed by the House of Commons. The Bill repealed Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act , which had been in force for over 30 years. Section 67 worked to block some discrimination complaints arising from the Indian Act . It had been included in the CHRA to facilitate a consultation and reform process to deal with discriminatory laws in the Indian Act.

The definitions of Aboriginal persons varies from census to census which makes it very difficult to establish socio-demographic trends — especially for the CAP constituency which includes Aboriginal persons living away from reserves.The failure of the 1986, 1991and 1996 Census to provide accurate data on self-identification of Aboriginal peoples, along with the reserve-oriented focus of Departmental data-gathering efforts, makes it exceptionally difficult to provide a clear socio-demographic profile of the CAP’s constituency.

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