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RSS FeedsTanya Talaga: Is the SNC-Lavalin scandal´s biggest victim Trudeau´s relationship with Indigenous people?
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13 february 2019 11:05:59

 
Tanya Talaga: Is the SNC-Lavalin scandal´s biggest victim Trudeau´s relationship with Indigenous people?
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


The appointment of Jody Wilson-Raybould, a We Wai Kai First Nation woman, to serve as the first Indigenous minister of justice was a powerful symbol for Indigenous people and a signal to all of Canada.Her resignation from cabinet is equally powerful.Trudeau was elected promising that the relationship this country has with Indigenous people was, to him, of the utmost importance. When Wilson-Raybould was appointed attorney general, it signalled that maybe he meant it, that maybe this time would be different. Maybe Wilson-Raybould would finally be the one to uphold basic human rights and fairness for Indigenous people.A First Nations woman was the top lawyer in a country that still has the paternalistic Indian Act on its books, that consistently fails to properly “consult†Indigenous communities on decisions that profoundly affect them, that claims it desperately wants to reconcile yet fights not to deliver equitable health, education and social services to Indigenous kids.Perhaps, it seemed for a moment, she could change history.But it wasn’t long before that old familiar feeling of doubt crept in. There was double speak on what nation-to-nation actually meant. There was little progress on bringing clean drinking water to First Nations. There was big talk but no action on revising the Indian Act. More inadequate consultations. And on and on.It must have been increasingly uncomfortable for Wilson-Raybould in cabinet, watching as the government ignored its promises on making First Nations, Métis and Inuit proper partners in everything from drafting legislation to fulfilling funding commitments. And then, abruptly, she was no longer the country’s top lawyer, fired from her historic role and shuffled off to Veterans Affairs.Why?There were planted whispers in the corridors of power that she had been demoted because she was a “thorn in the side†of the Trudeau government, because she was “difficult to get along with,†...


 
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