Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
First Nations are amongst the most pro crown, pro-supreme court of Canada, pro-court groups in Canada because they have relentlessly pursued justice through court cases and have slowly established a strong predicent.
Knowing how to operate within a system of oppression doesn’t mean it’s supported. How else would they be fighting for their rights?
Maybe I misunderstood and there is another reason you are saying there is broad support for these institutions.
I did read the other replies, but held out hope I was missing something.
I have no idea how someone could read the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and say such things. I am being generous and assuming all canadians who would speak on the relationship have read it.
I am going to be honest, I don’t think settlers deserve that kind of grace. Most of them are rewarded for being ignorant on this topic both because it keeps them politically unmotivated to challenge the state, and because it appeals to their desire for comfort with the morality of this way of life; which a gracious reading of this person’s comments would exemplify.
Most Canadians don’t want to be bad people, and so presume that they’d only be a bad person if they started wanting to be without ever considering if they are one passively. Unsurprisingly, this also means many or most make sense of colonialism with the language and knowledge that colonialism has given them, which leads to the sort of appropriation and colonization this thread emblemizes.
Knowing how to operate within a system of oppression doesn’t mean it’s supported. How else would they be fighting for their rights?
Maybe I misunderstood and there is another reason you are saying there is broad support for these institutions.
There wasn’t, read below. They actually are saying that.
I did read the other replies, but held out hope I was missing something.
I have no idea how someone could read the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and say such things. I am being generous and assuming all canadians who would speak on the relationship have read it.
I am going to be honest, I don’t think settlers deserve that kind of grace. Most of them are rewarded for being ignorant on this topic both because it keeps them politically unmotivated to challenge the state, and because it appeals to their desire for comfort with the morality of this way of life; which a gracious reading of this person’s comments would exemplify.
Most Canadians don’t want to be bad people, and so presume that they’d only be a bad person if they started wanting to be without ever considering if they are one passively. Unsurprisingly, this also means many or most make sense of colonialism with the language and knowledge that colonialism has given them, which leads to the sort of appropriation and colonization this thread emblemizes.