Department of Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Act (S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 337)

There is hereby established a Department of the Government of Canada called the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, over which the Minister presides. The Minister is responsible for (a) exercising leadership within the Government of Canada in relation to the affirmation and implementation of the rights of Indigenous peoples recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and the implementation of treaties and other agreements with Indigenous peoples; (b) negotiating treaties and other agreements to advance the self-determination of Indigenous peoples; and (c) advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, in collaboration with Indigenous peoples and through renewed nation-to-nation, government-to-government and Inuit-Crown relationships.