SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA!

 

Indigenous descendants have good reason to be unpatriotic to Canada!

The Indian Act of 1876 systematically stripped Indigenous peoples of their legal autonomy, cultural heritage, and economic rights, treating them as wards of the state rather than self-governing nations.

The Indian Act was specifically enacted to consolidate previous colonial laws into a single federal statute designed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian society and eradicate their distinct cultural, political, and economic identities.

In effect causing the genocide of the Indigenous population.

Genocide is legally defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.

Various Canadian court decisions since 1876 determined that Indigenous rights pre-existed European Control and was not a gift from the Crown, that Indigenous rights to land and harvesting survived the assertion of Crown sovereignty; and the honour of the Crown imposed a duty to consult and accommodate:

the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (part of the Constitution Act, 1982) guaranteed that every individual in Canada has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability.

In lieu of the 1982 Charter, Canada neglected to immediately amend the Indian Act to remove its genocidal properties, (a simple engagement of the house of commons), preferring instead to ignore, challenge, coerce, exclude, avoid, obfuscate, confuse, misdirect and generally laugh in the face of Indigenous peoples----all the while professing to the world of being fair, law abiding and honorable!

Shame on the government of Canada!