Bill Flowers

Bill Flowers is part of the Labrador Inuit community. He is retired from the public service and lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He now works as a consultant to First Nations. He graduated from Dalhousie Law School.

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A fixed link for Newfoundland and Labrador

In the late 1980s, I went on a business trip to Denmark. At the time the organization I was working with had a business arrangement with a deep-sea shrimp trawling company in Bornholm, Denmark. While …

An offshore deal for Indigenous people?

If I had to count the number of times I have heard that we need to “lift Indigenous people out of poverty” and “make Indigenous people equal and productive partners in Canada’s social and economic …

Inadequate consultation on the Muskrat Falls project

The Nunatsiavut government lost in both the Newfoundland Supreme Court and the Federal Court of Canada when it challenged the federal government's duty to consult and accommodate on the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador. …

Indigenous seats in Parliament

Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, guarantees the protection of “aboriginal and treaty rights” for the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada. The visionaries who framed the Constitution, particularly this provision, sought …

Steps along Reconciliation Road

At a First Nations education conference in late January in Calgary, sponsored by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, one of the presenters used the term “incrementalism.” She was discussing some initiatives in her …

The constituent base of our Indigenous leaders

The leaders of three national Indigenous organizations have decided to boycott the premiers’ meeting in Alberta, July 17-19. Their position is nothing short of absurd. They will not attend because they want to be recognized …

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