Social assistance as economic reconciliation

For reconciliation to succeed, it is time for First Nations to have the chance to create their own social support and economic development programs free of federal government controls and the limits of provincial programs.

Protesters, pictured on Parliament Hill Jan. 8, 2018, expressing solidarity with Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline camps in British Columbia. White society must begin loosening the legal ties that have bound First Nations up to the present, writes Allan Moscovitch. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALLAN MOSCOVITCH

June 22, 2020

OTTAWA—A little over 25 years ago, I co-authored a background study for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The subject of the study was social assistance or as it is popularly known, welfare. What few people know is that First Nations were not eligible for welfare until after a 1964 decis...

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