Some prominent milestones in Canada’s troubled relations with First Nations – 680 News
OTTAWA – Some landmarks in the long and uneasy relationship between Canada and First Nations.
June 2, 2015: Truth and Reconciliation Commission issues its final report. It says the survivors endured a “cultural genocide” that tore apart their families and left them to contend with lifelong scars of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. It includes dozens of harrowing individual accounts. The report includes 94 recommendations —everything from greater police independence, more education for all Canadians on the horrors of the school system and reducing the number of aboriginal children in foster care to restrictions on the use of conditional and mandatory minimum sentences.
April 10, 2014: The Harper government brings in the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act, which promises core funding of $1.25 billion from 2016–17 to 2018–19 for native schools. The bill ends up stalled after a groundswell of opposition among native chiefs, which also leads to the resignation of Shawn Atleo as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
