Respecting First Nations rights will make Canada a better place

Canada is in transition and the opportunity is there to get it right, making Canada stronger by ensuring that it works for everyone—or to continue down a path that has proven only to produce profound inequities. That’s our choice. And this is the time to get it right.

Chief Marcia Brown Martel, pictured on Oct. 6, 2017 singing in front of Centre Block after the government announced a historic agreement in principle providing $500-million to $800-million in restitution for Indigenous children affected by the Sixties Scoop, including Ms. Brown Martel who was taken away from her family when she was a child.The Hill Times photograph by Andew Meade

Opinion

BY PERRY BELLEGARDE

September 17, 2018

First Nations and Canadians can agree on two things: the importance of respecting rights, and the importance of caring for and loving our children and securing a prosperous future for them. Those values form the essence of the First Nations agenda. Canada has acknowledged that the failure to respec...

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