About the Art Kennedy’s cover art for the FNIGC series of First Nations guides to federal legislation are meant to illustrate First Nations knowledge and information, and data sovereignty. [...] What is First Nations data and data sovereignty? First Nations data sovereignty is an inherent, Treaty, and Constitutional right essential to the exercise of rights to self-determination and self- government. [...] About First Nations reserve and Traditional Lands, Waters, Resources, and the Environment WHAT IS THE STATISTICS ACT? The Statistics Act establishes: the Canadian statistics bureau called Statistics Canada, the position of Chief Statistician to oversee its operation, a Canadian Statistics Advisory Council to provide advice to the Chief Statistician, and the Minister responsible for Statistics Cana. [...] The Chief Statistician may disclose some information including: information collected by persons, organizations or departments for their own purposes and provided to Statistics Canada but only in the manner and to the extent agreed on by the collector and the Chief Statistician, where an individual, business, or organization has consented to the disclosure in writing, information available to the. [...] First Nations were not consulted on the creation of the legal regime in the first instance, and for the most part the system functions without any form of First Nations engagement, consultation, or oversight.
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