Bill creating reconciliation council ignores Indigenous voices

The Liberals' failure to adopt a House committee’s recommendation to include the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples on the national council is a disrespectful political attack that triggers trauma for Indigenous peoples who have experienced social exclusion because of government policy.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller sponsored Bill C-29, which would create a national council for reconciliation. Far too many politicians use the term 'reconciliation' as leverage while ignoring the realities Indigenous people face.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia.

Opinion

BY ELMER ST. PIERRE

March 2, 2023

Reconciliation has become a watered-down, politicized term at the hands of the Liberal government. It’s been turned into a symbolic word meant to calm Indigenous unrest, while the government plays politics by excluding hundreds of thousands of Indigenous peoples from recon...

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