Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has provided more details on its visit to the Six Nations community on Nov. 15, clarifying that the reason for the visit was to increase dialogue about border rights and issues faced by Indigenous peoples.
These details are a followup from a November 15 media release by the Six Nations Elected Council on its Facebook page, informing the community that CBSA would be entering the territory and said they were not made aware of the subject matter surrounding CBSA’s visit.
CBSA confirmed in an email response to CJKS News that the organization, along with officials from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, met with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC).
CBSA spoke on the reason for the visit, stating that it wanted to increase dialogue about border rights and issues faced by Indigenous peoples’.
CBSA says that it has been working with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to engage with a wide range of interested First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners, including bilateral discussions with representative organizations and through national consultations, in the form of Regional Roundtables that began in Oct. 2023 and will move across Canada by Jan. 2024.
CBSA says the Nov. 15 meeting with HCCC was a part of those regional roundtable discussions.
