Macdonald-Laurier Institute event explores the significance for Canada of the Vatican’s repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery

Indigenous lawyer Bruce McIvor says the colonizing doctrine lives on in Canada today in the concept of assumed Crown sovereignty.

Bruce McIvor from the law firm First Peoples Law, pictured addressing the House Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee on May 10, 2023. Screenshot courtesy of ParlVu

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

May 15, 2023

Historian and Indigenous lawyer Bruce McIvor told the audience at a Macdonald-Laurier Institute webinar on May 15 that he hopes the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the fifteenth-century Doctrine of Discovery adds to the momentum towards “a day of reckoning” for Canada ...

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