{"id":805531,"date":"2026-07-16T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:36:09","slug":"ministers-set-to-address-assembly-of-first-nations-gathering-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805531\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers set to address Assembly of First Nations gathering in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A handful of federal ministers are expected to address hundreds of First Nations chiefs as they gather in Ottawa today.<\/p>\n

They’ll be speaking in front of the Assembly of First Nations’ annual general meeting about public safety, the economy and natural resources development and social services for communities.<\/p>\n

The Assembly of First Nations is a national advocacy body that takes its direction from some 630 First Nations chiefs through special and annual general assemblies.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty<\/a>, US Trade Minister Dominic Leblanc<\/a>, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree<\/a> and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson<\/a> are among the ministers set to address chiefs.<\/p>\n

First Nations chiefs passed two resolutions on Wednesday confirming that stance and committing the AFN to opposing legislation or policies that dilute their rights or undermine their decision-making processes.<\/p>\n

Chiefs at this week’s assembly are debating and voting on 53 resolutions on various topics, including the major projects agenda, the state of First Nations child welfare<\/a>, status rules under the Indian Act and calls for the Vatican to rescind a series of papal decrees.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of federal ministers are expected to address hundreds of First Nations chiefs as they gather in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-805531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}