They certainly are!
As in when Sir John A. Macdonald existed?:
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Federal Court says the Canadian government wrongfully denies people status under the country’s Indian Act if their ancestors “voluntarily” gave up Indigenous status under laws that predate Confederation.
Plaintiffs Charles Wesley, Christopher Wesley, Sharon Nicholas and Nicole Nicholas filed a statement of claim in Vancouver this month seeking damages from the federal government for “being deprived of the benefits” of status under the act.
The claim says they all have “at least one direct ancestor” who was “enfranchised” under Canadian law, where they gave up their status and received the rights and privileges of Canadian citizenship.
The lawsuit details the history of enfranchisement in Canadian law dating back to the 1850s.
The statement of claim notes the findings of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, released in 1996, which said an 1857 law passed by the Province of Canada known as the Gradual Civilization Act was “one of the most significant events in the evolution of Canadian Indian policy.”The act was the first time “enfranchisement” was legislated, allowing Indigenous men, 21 or older, to renounce their status if they were, among other criteria, “of good moral character.”
“Its premise was that by eventually removing all legal distinctions between Indians and non-Indians through the process of enfranchisement, it would be possible in time to absorb Indian people fully into colonial society,” the report said.
The report found the “the enfranchisement policy was by its very nature an assault on Indian cultural identity,” and was inherently sexually discriminatory against women who were involuntarily stripped of their status if their husbands were enfranchised.
The grandfathered gravy train.
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However, a significant majority also feel more evidence is needed before accepting soil anomalies at the former Kamloops school represent unmarked graves.
Released today, the Angus Reid Institute survey found 68% of Canadians agree the residential school system constituted cultural genocide.
Half (54%) say the country must keep working to address the damage done to indigenous peoples.
More than 150,000 indigenous children, about one-third of the indigenous child population, attended these government funded schools.
The report comes over four years after the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépem First Nation announced finding soil anomalies using ground-penetrating radar at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
This was the largest indigenous residential school in Canada.
To date, no human remains have been confirmed or dug up at the site.
The suspected anomalies remain unverified despite the federal government spending more than $12 million to help the investigation.
The survey revealed that 63% of Canadian respondents and 56% of indigenous respondents agree that additional evidence, such as the possibility of exhumation, is essential to prove the burial of children.
This means two-thirds want additional evidence before accepting the anomalies are unmarked graves.
The study also explored attitudes towards people who publicly question the conclusions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
In recent years, some professors, teachers, lawyers, and politicians faced job loss or pressure to resign for doing so.
Most Canadians feel such job losses are unfair.
Fewer than three-in-10 Canadians (less than 30%) would support firing professors, high school teachers, or lawyers for raising questions about the TRC report.
So, no one felt it was necessary to verify such claims before the village idiot declared Canada to be a genocidal land-mass and that harpooning people who question such bogus fantasies as the late Queen stealing children back to England might be a tad unfair?
Not quick on the uptake some people are.
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