.Pam_Palmater: Tearful apologies and flowery speeches about reconciliation won’t cut it if Trudeau wants the support of Indigenous peoples in the next election. He needs to come clean and take real action.
Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw citizen and member of Eel River Bar First Nation. She has been a practicing lawyer for 18 years and currently holds the chair in Indigenous governance at Ryerson University.
Sadly, he broke all of his promises by flip-flopping on his support of our right to say no to development and failing to repeal a single piece of Harper’s First Nation legislation. He also denied First Nation women and children equality under the Indian Act and failed to abide by the decision of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to stop discriminating against First Nations children in foster care.
While it would not be fair to judge a Prime Minister for a single lapse in judgement, which he claims is the case with the protester in Toronto, it is fair to look at recurring problems and consider whether an identifiable pattern has emerged. It would be hard to forget the leaked video of Trudeau berating Regional Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Bobby Cameron for “allowing” all the Chiefs around the table to speak. Trudeau called Regional Chief Cameron by his first name and claimed it was “unfair” to go beyond the one-hour meeting, and not in the spirit of reconciliation.
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