Pamela Palmater: ‘Section 35’s empty shell of constitutional promise’

Recorded back in December of 2013, the 25th Annual McDonald Lecture hosted by the Centre for Constitutional Studies features Professor Pamela Palmater. In this lecture Professor Palmater argues that the federal government has failed to meet its obligations under the treaties signed with Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Professor Palmater is head of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University and was the runner up in the Assembly of First Nations leadership elections for national chief in 2012.

See Part Two of Pam Palmater’s discussion here.

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Kim Elliott

Publisher Kim spent her first 16 years on a working family farm in Quebec. Her first memories of rabble rousing are of strike lines, promptly followed by Litton’s closure of the small town...