Remit 1 has Passed – April 9, 2024

The votes have now been counted! Remit 1: Establishing an Autonomous National Indigenous Organization HAS PASSED.

What happens now? As is the case with all Category 3 Remits, if a remit has been approved by a majority of all the regional councils, the General Council must decide to enact it. The decision on enacting the remit will take place at the Annual Meeting of General Council, on October 19, 2024. When the remit has been enacted, the change will be included in the next edition of The Manual. (The process for remits is outlined in the United Church Manual, in section F, on pages 108-111.)

Find out more detailed information about the remit result: https://generalcouncil44.ca/news/results-vote-remit-1
The National Indigenous Council has also shared a statement: https://generalcouncil44.ca/…/national-indigenous…

Statement from the National Indigenous Council on the Results of Remit 1: Establishing an Autonomous National Indigenous Organization

We, the National Indigenous Council, are a diverse group of Indigenous Peoples, rooted in distinct innate values and wisdom. We:

• Carry a common vision and dream
• Respect everyone’s story
• Care for one another
• Uphold community
• Build positive relationships.

We thank our Ancestors and All Our Relations who have brought us to this moment.

We are all Spirit first.

The work of Right Relations continues.

We commit to moving forward together in a good way.

Thank you

Update on the Vote on Remit 1 – April 2, 2024

Thank you to all of the pastoral charges who voted!  Vote results are currently still being tabulated. For votes that were mailed in by Canada Post, they will be counted as long as they were post-marked by March 31. Those mail-in ballots are still coming into the General Council Office at the moment. As such, the preliminary results of the Remit 1 vote will be communicated next week in various ways, including through the E-ssentials newsletter.