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Maroc Maroc - ARMCHAIRMAYOR.CA - A La Une - 21/Jun 23:37

RECONCILIATION – A buzzword with a battlefield of conflicting interpretations

By GEOFFREY MOYSE, KC Troy Media Contributor If you Google the First Peoples Law website, you will find a one-minute explanation of “What is reconciliation” by Bruce McIvor. Interestingly, the first line in the piece reads as follows: “Reconciliation is Canada’s attempt to legitimize its ongoing colonization project.” In my view, this one line shines a bright light on the difficulties that the use of the term “reconciliation” is creating in this country. The term “reconciliation” now has as many meanings as there are people looking to define it, but one stark division appears over and over. There are those who say reconciliation is all about “decolonizing” Canada – whatever that means. There are others who believe that reconciliation can be achieved without denigrating the Canadian state but by following Canadian constitutional law, which is remarkably advanced in its protection of Aboriginal rights. There seems to be little doubt that the present BC NDP government favours the decolonization approach to reconciliation as its ideological preference, but what does “decolonizing British Columbia” mean in practice? According to Queen’s University: Canada’s identity as a settler colonial state complicates the task of decolonization, since the original colonizers never left and since acts of [...]

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