Trudeau to meet with national aboriginal groups in bid for fresh start

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with leaders from fivenational aboriginal organizations before the end of the year in a bid to keep his promise for "arenewed, nation-to-nationrelationship" with indigenous people, CBC News has learned.

The five organizations are the Assembly of First Nations, Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Mtis National Council; and the Native Women's Association of Canada.

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The meeting will take place around the release of the complete report by theTruth and Reconciliation Commission,said a source inside the Prime Minister's Office.

While the meeting will take place in Ottawa,an exact date remains to be determined, the source said.

Trudeaupromised to implement all of the 94 recommendations made by the commission when its firstreport was released in June,including the launch of a national public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

Thechair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Judge MurraySinclair, released the report after six years of hearings and testimony from more than 6,000 residential school survivors and their loved ones.

Canada's provincial and territorial leaders met with thenational aboriginal organizations in July to discuss a range of issues, including ending violence against aboriginal women and girls, as well as graduation rates among aboriginal students.

First meeting in years?

It is unclear when the five national aboriginal organizations last met as a group with aprime minister.

Chuck Strahl, who served as minister of Indian affairsfrom 2007 to 2010 told CBC News on Friday that Stephen Harper did meet with them during his tenure.

The Assembly of First Nations andInuitTapiriitKanatamitold CBC they attended ameetingwith Harper during a First Ministers' Conference in January2009.

Harper also held two high-profile meetings with First Nations during his final mandate as prime minister.

Inwhat was described as ahistoric Crown-First Nations gathering, hundreds of chiefs met with the Governor General, Harper and a dozen of his cabinet members on Jan. 24, 2012.

A year later, Harper held another meeting with a delegation of First Nations chiefsamid grassroots protests of theIdle No More movement.

Former prime ministerPaul Martin and his ministers alsomet with representatives of the five national aboriginal organizations in 2005.