{"id":900889,"date":"2026-09-18T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900889\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:20:10","slug":"canada-politics-afn-invites-carney-and-premiers-to-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900889\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada politics: AFN invites Carney and premiers to Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ensuring timelines for federal major projects will allow for First Nations consultations will be top priority of discussion at this week\u2019s AFN General Assembly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The Assembly of First Nations has invited premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney to a day-long ceremony ahead of their October meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The premiers, Carney and First Nations representatives are set to meet in Ottawa on Oct. 26 \u2014 the first such gathering in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says First Nations leaders want to bring their own cultural practices to that meeting and she\u2019s hoping they can start from a place of mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The AFN is still working with elders across the country to decide what the ceremony day will look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Woodhouse Nepinak says she hopes all premiers accept the invitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The First Nations-First Ministers meeting was promised by Carney after First Nations chiefs pushed back publicly on his government\u2019s major projects agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ensuring timelines for federal major projects will allow for First Nations consultations will be top priority of discussion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,4852,47,44,714,715],"class_list":["post-900889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-human-interest","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900889","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=900889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}