Economic reconciliation can only begin when colonial practices are completely dismantled

It means that economic development cannot happen without the free, prior, and informed consent and participation of the Indigenous people whose traditional territory that economic development will impact.

A first step towards economic reconciliation with the Indigenous peoples of these lands must be the full implementation of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), writes Green Party MP Paul Manly. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREEN PARTY MP PAUL MANLY

June 22, 2020

NANAIMO-LADYSMITH, B.C.—Canada was built on the doctrine of terra nullius, the fallacy that when European settlers came to this land, it was empty and waiting to be “discovered." From the outset European colonialism has excluded Indigenous people from decisions that affect their territory, their...

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