Translation of "Qalipu " (English → French) :

Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band [ QMFN | Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation | Qalipu First Nation | Qalipu ]

Simply stated, Bill C-25 is about protecting the integrity and credibility of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation by ensuring that at the end of the membership enrolment process of this new band, that is, the Qalipu Mi'kmaq Band, only those individuals with legitimate claims to membership shall become members of the band.

When the final deadline for applications for band membership had closed in the fall of 2012, under the 2008 Agreement for the Recognition of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq Band, more than 101,000 individuals had applied to become members of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq Band.

Clause 3 of Bill C-25 would provide the Governor-in-Council with the explicit authority to remove names of founding members from the schedule to the recognition order that legally created the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation should any of these individuals be determined following the reassessment process contained in the 2013 Supplemental Agreement not to be legitimately entitled to registration as a status Indian and member of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq Band.

...stration process for the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation Band, the government should commit: (a) to completing the enrollment and registration process for all applicants who applied on or before November 30, 2012 by agreeing to extend the 2007 Agreement for the Recognition of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band beyond March 21, 2013 until all such applications are processed; (b) to ensuring that the rules of eligibility for membership are followed by all government decision makers in any continuation of the enrollment process; (c) that all previous interpretations, precedents and rulings on matters affecting enrollment that were not sp ...[+++]ecifically addressed within the 2007 Agreement but were established instead through the records of decisions made by the Enrollment Committee and the Appeals Master be made known to all participants in any future enrollment process and that the decision makers in any future enrollment process be instructed to guide their decisions in a manner consistent with such previous interpretations, precedents and rulings; (d) to the same standard of evidence as well as the same thresholds for the quantity and quality of information that was previously deemed acceptable by the Enrollment Committee, for the remaining 75,000 unprocessed applications to the Band; (e) that an independent Appeals Master will continue to be employed in any future enrollment process for the assessment of the remaining 75,000 applicants and that this person will be drawn from outside of government, from outside of the Federation of Newfoundland Indians and from outside of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation Band and that this Appeal Master will be vested with the same powers and authority and be drawn from the same legal and administrative background as the previous Appeals Master to ensure consistency with the rules and standards established under the previous enrollment process; (f) to maintaining all existing memberships, except in cases where fraud can be established that is material to the application; and (g) to ensuring that no eligible ...