Tag Archives: Justin Trudeau

POST 1 – Justin Trudeau on Indigenous Issues in Canada: The VICE News Interview – David Loti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9zDYXqJusk

Visited 17 October 2018

 

Justin Trudeau declares that Canadians have discriminated against Indigenous persons for centuries and that in 2016 Canada designated $8.6 billion to aid Canadian First Nations. In his discussions with Indigenous youth in Shoal Lake 40, a community that itself has unclean drinking water while the lake on which it sits supplies water to Winnipeg, Trudeau reports that youth want more counselors and people who will talk with them and listen and more after school programs. Trudeau sees “consultations,” “capacity building,” and “respectful partnership” as First Nations’ way forward from the oppressive legacy of the Indian Act.

POST 4 – Canada’s Impossible Acknowledgement – David Loti

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment

Visited 4 October 2018

Stephen Marche argues that in the time since Justin Trudeau’s election with “great gusts of hope that we might finally confront the horror of our history . . . the process of reconciliation between Canada and its First Nations has stalled.” However land acknowledgements have spread from elementary schools to hockey arenas, and land “[acknowledgments force] individuals and institutions to ask a basic, nightmarish question: Whose land are we on?” Marche contests land acknowledgements because their wording is passive, useless, jargon written to “express a sentiment without . . . feeling it.”