An Ontario town has rejected a motion to open all its council meetings with an acknowledgment that the proceedings are taking place on lands held by Canada’s Indigenous people.
“I’m remarkably disappointed,” West said in a telephone interview. “Sometimes governments are not the organizations that lead. Sometimes we lead the parade from behind, and this might be one of those cases. The people are leading us.” The statement West hoped to see read before all future council meetings included an acknowledgment that participants were gathered on the “traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples, whose presence here continues to this day.”
“I think we’re treading down a course of political correctness that’s going to be difficult to rein in,” he said at the meeting. “There’s no acknowledgment of the Portuguese, the Italian community, the Chinese community, the Iranian community – all the groups that coexist here in harmony.
“We just thought we would help out the mayor and council to learn about our history,” the group said, declining to offer further comment on the Richmond Hill vote.
Does 'claimed' or 'first occupied by' mean the same as 'held', 'owned' or otherwise 'controlled' or 'possessed'? This always sounds like a sop to First Nations people. It is of questionable sincerity and zero legal effect. What's the game, anyway?
good - enough of this BS pandering
I don’t think the acknowledgement goes back far enough. I’m waiting for the acknowledgment for T-Rex.
Can I be honest? I am allergic to bs. I hope the indigenous people can see through this nonsense. Something a fake feminist would suggest. To say it politely, it's bullcrap. ✌️🙂
And the Canadian tribes born out of an ancient great Iroquois (and the tribes who witnessed the great peacemaker) that has been here in some form since the last ice age. We should for sure remember these things & what better way than to open the table to policy making
BC has been doing it for years..good to know Richmond Hill in Ont is doing what is right.
This is about respect and living out the recommendations from the TRC. Every conference, every meeting I've been to in Ottawa for the last several years begins with it. Anything that reminds me that I'm part of a larger whole is a good way to start the day.
Good! It's nothing but empty virtue signaling anyway. And if you listen to some of those acknowledgements, they mention several tribes. How could multiple tribes 'own' the same piece of land?
Maybe we should all start our day with the acknowledgement that each of our homes stand on traditional Indigenous territories. cdnpoli reconciliation
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