The shiny promises about advancing reconciliation and forging a new path forward seem to have dulled for First Nations, Métis and Inuit.
July 2022 papal apology
Hayden King, executive director of Yellowhead Institute, said Ottawa seemed spurred into action when Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation announced in May 2021 that ground-penetrating radar had detectedThree of the commission’s calls to action were completed that month: appointing an Indigenous languages commissioner, establishing a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to be celebrated Sept.
Dr. Cindy Blackstock, seen here in a 2021 file photo, is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, said federal governments have set up a pattern where they create policies that harm Indigenous Peoples and then Canadians pay the cost when courts side with communities.who were harmed by the federal government’s underfunding of child welfare services.
Hajdu pointed to the settlement coming with another $20 billion that will go to revamping the First Nations child welfare system. She said this recognizes the need to shift from having to compensate for past harms to getting it right in the first place through “better tools of self-determination and equity in place so that these kinds of things never happen again.”
The federal government says it has lifted 143 long-term drinking water advisories since November 2015. Hajdu said most of the 28 long-term advisories, affecting 26 communities, are in remote areas where access to infrastructure is a greater challenge. Hajdu is expected to introduce legislation this fall, co-developed with First Nations, Métis and Inuit, to address some of the bigger barriers to sustainable access to safe drinking water.
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