Chrétien's bloodbath budget had severe negative social impacts in areas like unemployment insurance, but in retrospect the scale of Chrétien's task remains impressive, as does the fact that programme spending on important constituencies like indigenous people and children were increased even as the public sector as a whole shrunk by up to 20%.
Yet how much consultation will occur with Indigenous community groups in their respective constituencies to ensure their platforms are consistent with community aspirations?
But the Maoists, though often corrupt and brutal, have found a large constituency among millions of indigenous peoples (Adivasis), for whom even the fragile security of a subsistence economy has been destroyed by the nexus between global corporations and their Indian enforcers.
This year, the Eighth Annual Food Sovereignty Prize will honor The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), which brings together a number of different constituencies: small farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples, women, youth, consumer networks, people of faith and environmental activists in the fight for food sovereignty.
In the northern part of his constituency, which includes Attawapiskat, 700 Indigenous kids have attempted suicide since 2009.
These include peasants, educators, Afro-descendants and indigenous people, coca-leaf farmers and truck drivers, among other constituencies.
Cape Town's tardiness is in part because of the fact that it is governed by the opposition Democratic Alliance and its main constituency is not black but "coloured" descendants of slaves and the indigenous Khoisan.
Groups (c) nature preservationists and (d) pastoral people's advocates, are typically more unequivocal that they act as lobbyists on behalf of their constituencies; for example, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) or World Alliance for Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP).
At the same time, Wyatt emphasized that, while he would continue as an advocate for Australia's indigenous peoples, his primary role would be that of the parliamentary representative for all members of his constituency.
