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26. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to review and amend their respective statutes of limitations to ensure that they conform to the principle that governments and other entities cannot rely on limitation defences to defend legal actions of historical abuse brought by Aboriginal people.
As of March 2018, "no amendment has been made to provincial or territorial statutes of limitation acts specifically regarding historical abuse against Indigenous peoples," but the federal government states that there has been "a shift in the way that Canada litigates cases involving Indigenous people to ensure it is done respectfully and advances reconciliation." So, as with many Calls we've read thus far, this one is being recognized in an abstract way without the implementation of concrete legal policies...
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