Kelowna Accords

When agreement Kelowna (Engl. Kelowna Accord , French. Accord de Kelowna ) is (Strengthening the relationships and bridge the gap) to a working paper entitled "Strengthening Relationships and Closing the Gap". This working paper was founded in 2005 under the government of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and leaders of the Aboriginal elaborated. On this basis, the living conditions, education and training as well as the employment situation of the indigenous people should be improved. To this end, government funding should be promised and programs should be developed. The text first appeared in January 2006 in the Toronto Starbut without calling it the “Kelowna Accord”, as it soon became naturalized.

In fact, there were several documents that had been drawn up over the course of 18 months and were presented in the House of Commons as "documents belonging to the Kelowna Accords".

The press release from the prime minister's office on November 25, 2005 named five billion dollars to be invested over the next ten years, but without specifying the burden-sharing that would result for the various bodies of government, provinces or territories and the tribes surrendered.

When the government of the Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, elected as successor to Paul Martin, presented its budget on May 2, 2006, it committed itself to the goals of the Kelowna Accord, but not to the funding, as it had called the press release. However, the members of the former government did not have a signed agreement. On March 21, 2007, the government voted again to reject the budgeting.

The leading indigenous organizations have been trying to enforce the agreement since 2006, but to no avail.

According to a November 21, 2006 report by CBC News , the Kelowna Accord, the text of which is no longer traceable on the Privy Council Office site , included: $ 1.8 billion in education, a new school system, teacher training, child identification “With special needs,” 1.6 billion for house building, including 400 million for providing edible drinking water, 1.3 billion for health services, and finally 200 million for economic development.

See also

• First Nations history
• Métis
• Inuit

Web links

• First Nations Implementation Plan, on the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development website
• Undoing the Kelowna agreement, in: CBC News, November 21, 2006 , archive.org, May 19, 2013
• Canadians For Kelowna ( December 8, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )

Remarks

1. ↑ See Aboriginal leaders seek to revive Kelowna Accord .