{"id":124068,"date":"2025-08-06T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:45:09","slug":"manitoba-metis-federation-not-attending-carneys-major-projects-meeting-says-inviting-mno-is-undermining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124068\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation not attending Carney\u2019s major projects meeting, says inviting MNO is undermining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/JFRLOHJHMNCARCR2ZCKDKIEH34.jpg?auth=2ded185f0522ade061acf7a6d213496c490463f9e6f669eb6c53d3c8d48b56b3&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">President of the Manitoba Metis Federation David Chartrand says that Ottawa\u2019s push to approve major projects is at risk if Ottawa negotiates with \u201cillegitimate bodies.\u201dAaron Vincent Elkaim\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation is turning down Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s invitation to discuss his government\u2019s controversial major projects legislation, saying it won\u2019t attend the meeting alongside another M\u00e9tis group it says has no reason to exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The federation, which represents Red River M\u00e9tis, says Carney\u2019s decision to include the M\u00e9tis Nation of Ontario in Thursday\u2019s meeting undermines the integrity of the gathering and puts the government\u2019s plans for major projects at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-premiers-say-buy-in-needed-from-indigenous-leaders-on-major-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premiers say buy-in needed from Indigenous leaders on major projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Federation president David Chartrand says Ottawa is also propping up the M\u00e9tis National Council by including it in the meeting, despite the fact that it has only two provincial members left due to conflicts related to the M\u00e9tis Nation of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Carney promised meetings with First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis after Indigenous leaders said they were not consulted adequately on the major projects legislation and they fear projects will move forward without their input.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-national-interest-indigenous-economic-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opinion: \u2018National interest\u2019 must not be defined by economic interests alone. It must also reflect the rights of Indigenous peoples<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">While the Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation has been generally supportive of the legislation, it now says that Ottawa\u2019s push to approve major projects is at risk if Ottawa negotiates with \u201cillegitimate bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">First Nations and other M\u00e9tis groups say the communities represented by the MNO have no claim to M\u00e9tis heritage and Ottawa and Ontario have no right to recognize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: President of the Manitoba Metis Federation David Chartrand says that Ottawa\u2019s push to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,4741],"class_list":{"0":"post-124068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pleasemod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114982835069133233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}