Engagement as co-development
As mentioned earlier, engagements can play an important role in the co-development of legislation, programs, and policies to ensure that modern treaties are properly implemented.
With collaborative work being undertaken with the Federal Government, engagement guides and co-development principles have been developed. The Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee includes modern treaty holders in the Inuit Nunangat (Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Nunatsiavut Government, and Makivvik Corporation).
The Committee published the Inuit-Crown Co-development Principles to guide the development of content for federal legislation, regulations, policies, programs, services, initiatives, and monitoring and evaluation criteria.
The Shared Priorities Framework is another example of the importance of early engagement with modern treaty holders. The framework was signed in 2022 between the Government of British Columbia and the BC Modern Treaty Nations as a renewal of the commitment to the implementation of their modern treaties.
The Shared Priorities Framework addresses three outcomes, one being “meaningful involvement of modern treaty nations in legislative and policy initiatives” to ensure there is early involvement and consideration of modern treaty rights in government policy and legislation.
Ask the Indigenous modern treaty holder you are working with if they have an engagement guide or principles.
