"Mr. Trudeau said his government is a "full supporter" of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, when in fact it has repeatedly (and wisely) hedged about clauses that appear to give native people the right to declare unilateral independence, and to veto development."

Let's not fail to mention the not unimportant impediment the constitution poses where these matters are concerned, which must surely be inconvenient to Trudeau, who's prone to wrap himself in the sanctity of that document when it serves him to do so. There is no route for aboriginal independence under the current version of the constitution, which subsumes the Proclamation of 1763, whereby Crown sovereignty is asserted across all Canadian lands. And the Supreme Court recently threw cold water on the fantasy of an aboriginal veto over development. The UNDRIP is at best an aspirational instrument and the big concern should be that Trudeau is creating expectations that can't be met.