Canada's indigenous communities strive for reform after decades of systemic discrimination

Published 2022-07-08
#Canada's government signed the most significant compensation agreement in its history in December 2021. After a nearly 15-year legal battle, the state will pay $40 billion for imposing racist and discriminatory practices within its child welfare system. The agreement, however, has been greeted by #indigenous communities with caution, as confidence in #Ottawa is weak.


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All Comments (13)
  • @altela1597
    A true example of systemic racism - Canada's INDIAN ACT? The INDIAN ACT reduced Canada's Aboriginal peoples to legal status as minors. Therefore the Ottawa government of Canada set up a system of apartheid against the First Nations. This discriminatory system must be considered as systemic racism since it is based on laws and principles consciously developed and accepted by the majority of citizens even today. This reality, unworthy of a country that calls itself evolved, largely determines the troubled relations that have existed between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals since 1876. An example of discrimination resulting from this law: The INDIAN ACT does not confer any property rights on the Native people since it is impossible for them to buy the lands in the reserves, this one being the exclusive property of the Crown, Crown which belongs to the British Monarchy to which King Charles III was recently elected non-democratically, in office by blood ties only. This state of affairs therefore limits the ability of Aboriginal people to borrow and reduces their financial autonomy. They have different rights from other citizens simply because of their Aboriginal status. This form of segregation is a blatant demonstration of systemic racism. And Canada has NEVER honored a single treaty with Canada's First Nations.
  • Yeah First Nations get it from everybody Inuits, Metis, Hispanics, Far Easterners, Europeans, and even other First Nationals yeah.
  • @wildhogs1ful
    The amount of evil that esau has to pay for only God can dish out
  • @Panacea9
    I haven't met many. I've stated some things before. How do you connect a disconnected population? Go out of your way to work with them. Fund and tech them how to manage an industry and work with them for developing education for what they need and what they want to get into. Some will see targeted education to the industries they have a good thing. Make the education broad enough that they can always connect outwards. There are lots of things you can do. Do it at the expense of taking over foriegn business. Get Canada to take it from foreign and give it back to the founders.
  • @xenxebra2559
    All they want is money. They have no accountability.
  • @MelissaAuthority
    Joing society and stop taking payouts. You people plead poverty but get more support than any other Canadian citizens. Us new foreigner share sick of paying for your laziness!
  • @lilyb8577
    I hope a new government supports them. This is reminding me of todays Israel and Palestine