Feds making a wreck of reconciliation

Stolen land and stolen sisters are not part of Canada’s past, or a shameful history we can simply apologize for. It’s happening now.

Despite rhetoric from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, concrete reconcilation with Indigenous people is stalled after the Trans Mountain pipeline approval and inaction on removing sex discrimination in the Indian Act, write Erica Ifill and Amy Kishek. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AMY KISHEK, ERICA IFILL

June 26, 2019

OTTAWA—Now that the hysteria over the audacity of a national inquiry’s use of the word “genocide” has died down, let’s take stock of how the Canadian government continues to proactively perpetuate systemic and systematic racism against Indigenous peoples. In Grassy Narrows First Nation, c...

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