It was during a 2005 protest organized by then Native Women’s Association of Canada President Beverly Jacobs and then Quebec Native Women’s Association President Ellen Gabriel when I first met Senator Lillian Eva Dyck.
 
As many know Bill S-3 An Act to Eliminate the Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act was brought into law on December 12, 2017. However, important clauses regarding what has become known as “6(1)a All the Way!” while added to the Indian Act were not proclaimed as law, rather they were “delayed”. The Upper Chamber of Canada is urging the Liberal Government to move forward on this matter.
 
On February 19, 2019 Senator Dyck tabled a motion in the Senate chamber urging Canada to bring into force the remaining provisions of Bill S-3. It reads and was adopted as:
 
"That the Senate, in light of the decision made by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of January 11, 2019, which ruled that ongoing sex-based hierarchies in the registration provisions of the Indian Act violate Canada’s international human rights obligations, urge the federal government to bring into force the remaining provisions of Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act in response to the Superior Court of Quebec decision in Descheneaux c. Canada, which would remedy the discrimination, no later than June 21, 2019."

To read more about this motion click the link below.