Critical Perspectives and Reflections

Is there hope For Canada's Relationship with Indigenous People? Author: Bill Lee, may 10. 2017 About a year ago around this time, I wrote a blog, in Critical Perspectives about what appeared to be, then, some legitimate glimmerings of hope that the Canadian state would act with a more fair minded and just political strategy in terms of addressing the colonial injustices (past and present) perpetrated against Indigenous people ( CANADA’S "TROUBLED" RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE , May 2, 2016). The Harper Con government had seemed to be intent on not only ignoring the colonial injustices but of rolling back any movement in a progressive direction. But during and after the 2015 election, the Libers under Justin Trudeau were making the right kind of noises and had actually done a few things, at least of symbolic import, appointments of Indigenous people to apparently powerful ministries, like Attorney General and the appointment of a seemingly solid ...