As you can see:
The federal prison service is budgeting almost $11 million a year on spiritual healing for Indigenous inmates. Contractors are paid for “telling of stories,” “sacred ceremonies” and “sharing of traditional teachings,” said an internal audit: “One strives to be in harmony with all living things on Mother Earth.”
You won't be needing penicillin, then.
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After facing heat for speaking to the Frontier Centre – a non-profit with a history of questioning Residential School abuses – last week Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to pursue a swift end to the Indian Act. “It’s a racist, colonial hang-over that gives all the control to self-serving and incompetent politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists in Ottawa and takes away the control from the First Nations themselves,” he told Global News.
First brought into force in 1876, the Indian Act easily stands as the most nakedly oppressive piece of legislation ever passed by a Canadian parliament. In addition to greenlighting the Indian Residential School system, it forbade First Nations people from voting, forming political organizations, hiring a lawyer or even leaving their reserve without Crown permission. Right up until 1951, the Indian Act still prescribed jail terms for any Canadian who organized a public event featuring Indigenous people in “aboriginal costume.”
Several major parliamentary rewrites have stripped the document of its most egregious clauses, but the Indian Act still retains its core function as a document mandating top-down federal control over basically every aspect of First Nations life.
Getting rid of the Indian Act will bring people into the twenty-first century as equal members of society and force political corruption into the open where (hopefully) it will be dealt with.
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