Coates: Helping Indigenous People is about more than embracing UN decl

As world leaders, including our own, meet at the United Nations this week, there have been renewed calls for Canada to fully embrace the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Since the 2015 federal election campaign, when Liberal leader Justin Trudeau lifted Indigenous issues from the recesses of federal politics and established UNDRIP and the improvement of conditions for Indigenous Peoples as signature commitments of his party, UNDRIP has attracted a great de