Ottawa to change discriminatory Indian Act rules
Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Tuesday the government will amend the Indian Act rather than challenge a judgment by the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The ruling in April stemmed from a longstanding dispute involving Sharon McIvor of Merritt, B.C., and her son Charles Grismer, who was barred from passing Indian status to his children.
McIvor, a member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band, lost her Indian status when she married a non-aboriginal man. After the Indian Act was amended in 1985, she applied for reinstatement for herself and her son, a process that took 20 years.
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