On Wednesdays, we wear reconciliation

The mean-girls attack that Carolyn Bennett launched on Jody Wilson-Raybould was typical of the lateral violence women of colour experience from white women.

It’s downright reprehensible that the person responsible for demonstrating reconciliation, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, left, decided to attack a prominent Indigenous MP, Jody Wilson-Raybould, on the day we learned of the 751 unmarked graves at a former residential school site in Cowessess First Nation, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

June 30, 2021

OTTAWA—It seems like Annamie Paul was right about this government when she accused Justin Trudeau of being a fake feminist and a fake ally. As if on cue, the Trudeau government continues to prove that while it pretends to be Dr. Melfi, it’s really Livia Soprano. On June 24, news that Cowessess ...

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