True reconciliation will only happen when the feds stop interfering with Indigenous governance

First Nations proved centuries ago that they could govern themselves better than Europeans or settlers.

Demonstrators outside Canada’s Supreme Court in 2016 protest the reversal of the flow of crude oil in Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. The court later ruled in favour of Enbridge, dismissing the legal challenge from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDWARD WHITCOMB

March 16, 2018

When Europeans arrived in North America in great numbers after 1600 they assumed that their civilization was superior in every respect to that of First Nations. They were wrong in a number of ways, and Canadians who cling to such views are still wrong. Grudgingly, those first visitors had to accept...

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