Time to rethink the model: distinctions-based framework is colonial, sexist, and simply doesn’t work
Invite us to the table. End the discrimination. And respectfully use a distinction-based approach when it is needed. Not as a blanket approach to exclude women and gender diverse people or other relevant stakeholders.
The federal government likes to say it has adopted a “distinctions-based” approach for dealing with the myriad of issues facing Indigenous people in Canada. We have other words for it, like contrived, or colonialist, or just plain sexist.
The fact is that, when the Liberal government was graspi...
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