IThis is possible So that the indigenous peoples determine their own priorities in the same economy based on their oppression and exclusion? During the decade after the commission, in truth and reconciliation, published its calls for action, the Canadian government could not change the foundations of its economic system in such a way as to really free up space for self -determination of indigenous peoples. Instead, the indigenous peoples say that they are grateful for the fact that they have a place at the table, and the menu has already been installed.
Most calls to action are not written for corporations. But call ninety -two emphasizing the need for just access to employment, training and education in accordance with the United Nations' Development Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples and for free, preceding and informed consent before continuing economic development projects. It should also be interpreted in the light of the government’s requirements for the provision of culturally significant health care, fair access to the formation and revival of legal systems of indigenous peoples.
Instead of implementing these challenges with the help of a strong policy, federal governments and governments of the provinces transferred a simple control list of partnerships of indigenous peoples to industry. In the absence of land back, compensation and systemic changes, we have corporations from the commission to legitimize the extraction of resources. In recent years, governments and industry are increasingly indicating to call ninety -two in order to justify the “economic reconciliation”, the term that barely appears in the final report of TRC and has since become cooked with green light Resource extraction projects Under the guise of partnership. It was rethought as a means of ensuring pipelines, mines and corporate access to the indigenous lands, and not represent the intention of the commission or the vision of the survivors.
This is an active political decision made by governments, and not passive neglect. Governments can maintain the emergence of progress without solitude, prescribing the responsibility of the industry. It may be easier and cheaper to allow corporations to conclude private transactions and create short -term jobs, and not force government restoration of land, management of indigenous peoples or the complete consequences of the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. In this agreement, reconciliation becomes a strategy of public relations provided by corporations, and retains the status of the qvo untouched.
Since TRC, it is clear that in the eyes of the government the indigenous peoples have no right to determine their own priorities if they contradict the government’s desire to extract land and labor. Wet hereditary leaders and defenders of the Earth spent years, resisting the coastal pipeline of the Gaslinka in their unrequited territory, Just to be met with militarized royal Canadian police raids and criminalization. In Ontario, ASUBPEESCHOSEWAGONG Anishinabek First Nation (Grassy Narrrows) I spent decades He climbed in the legal and political struggle for justice after the poisoning of mercury devastated his community and the surroundings, nevertheless struggling with magazines. The first peoples of Blueberry River were supposed to take the province of British Colombia To court Finally, their contractual rights were recognized after many years of cumulative industrial development.
The indigenous peoples have no significant opportunities to affirm the rights to their own lands, in addition to resistance in the front line or prolonged, expensive legal battles, which inevitably lead to the fact that they are characterized in contrast to economic progress.
Too often people hear about economic development and think about industry, factories, large companies and assimilations in the Canadian production economy. Another way forward exists. The nation bring the nation on this earth Local food systems Let us return to life through hunting, fishing, agriculture and thorough preservation that feed people and raise the ground. The communities of indigenous peoples are now supporting Projects of renewable energy This reduced dependence on diesel, maintains ownership of local energy and allowed income to remain in the community.
Language schools of immersion, cultural tourism and artists management are a double duty, inhaling life into identity and creating sustainable work. Obstetricity programs, ground healing and public departments put health and well -being to get ahead of profit.
These are not side projects. These efforts form circular, Regenerative economy Where the cost is transferred through kinship, and not delayed and sold. If the governments financed these initiatives even to the share of what they invest in the extraction of resources, or celebrated them from the same fanfare as for liquid, innovative destruction of natural gas and tape cuttings, we would be closer to real economic reconciliation.
Reconciliation is an obligation, and not a project that will be left in the private sector, and not the possibility of branding, and not a linear position in the report on corporate social responsibility. Chronic Spaces in financing And the lack of political imagination means that under the guidance of indigenous peoples, visions of economic development, based on the management of land resources, language, care and culture, are often dismissed or protected. This leaves the communities to get stuck with a choice to participate in the extraction of economies in the conditions of settlers or to be excluded exclusively. Until the indigenous priorities become more than the flag, the reconciliation will remain unrealized.
