Economic reconciliation starts with equitable access to education for Indigenous peoples

If Canada is truly serious about economic reconciliation, there needs to be a substantial investment in Indigenous education. It is time to sit down together at the kitchen table and start discussing how to move forward.

Equal access to a quality education is perhaps the most important component to economic reconciliation. Indigenous education has been chronically underfunded for decades, writes Manon Tremblay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MANON TREMBLAY

June 22, 2020

MONTREAL—From an Indigenous perspective, reconciliation has long been dead in the water. It is difficult to develop a shared understanding of reconciliation when its very concept is defined, planned, and carried out by government authorities and other non-Indigenous stakeholders who are overwhelme...

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