Residency Law Working Group still needs Focus Group members

05/17/2018

The Mohawk Council of Kahnaw�:ke (MCK) wishes to announce that the Working Group responsible for the proposed Kahnaw�:ke Residency Law is continuing to seek community members interested in participating in a focus group to assist the technical drafting team with the concepts for criteria for portions of the proposed Law.

The Mandate was given by the community in Onerahtohk�:wa/May 2017 to begin drafting a Residency Law. Consensus was reached to move forward, the community directed there be better clarity for the Eligibility Criteria for Non-Member Residency portion of the Law.

�The drafting team has identified a need to get some community perspectives on the Eligibility criteria, so we decided to gather a solid focus group to help us consider criteria to propose to the community,� said Iets�nhaienhs Rhonda Kirby, the proponent of the Residency Law. �To be clear, this is not the Community Decision Making Process but, rather, we�re looking at this as a tool to prepare a better draft to help when it�s time to launch the CDMP meetings.� 

The focus group session will be held on Thursday, May 24th from 6 to 8pm at the MCK main building. 

Interested persons must be on the Kanien�keh�:ka of Kahnaw�:ke Registry and should contact Trina C. Diabo at 450-632-7500 or by email at trinac.diabo@mck.ca.