Liberals running out of time on proposed law to remove one kind of discrimination from Indian Act.

A proposed law to take out a discriminatory section of the Indian Act was already politically difficult for the Liberals. Now, they are running out of time. Bill S-2 was originally written to comply with a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that gave Ottawa until April 30 to comply with a court case known as Nicholas v. the Attorney General of Canada. The ruling, delivered in August 2025, compelled Ottawa to amend the Indian Act to restore legal status to approximately 3,000 to 6,000 individuals who had lost status under old provisions of the Indian Act known as voluntary enfranchisement. When the fede…