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Unsettling Canada

a National Wake-up Call
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"As UN studies have concluded, recognition of our right to self-determination and our land rights are absolutely essential for the survival of our peoples... To Canadians who fear the changes that this will bring to this country, I can only say to them that there is no downside to justice. Just as there was no downside to abolishing slavery, to the winning of equal civil rights for blacks in Canada and the United States, to the emancipation of women. The moves away from the racism and misogyny in the past have only ennriched the lives of all of us. The same will happen when racist doctrines still in force against Indigenous peoples are replaced by recognition of our rights."