Progress, pushback and Indigenous rights – David Suzuki Foundation

April 2, 2026

By David Suzuki with contributions from Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin

In Canada, progress on social and ecological justice often faces roadblocks.

When women got the right to vote here in 1918, organizations sprang up to argue voting was incompatible with women’s “traditional roles.”

When universal health care was introduced in the 1960s, doctors in Saskatchewan went on strike, accusing the government of exercising too much control over health care.

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