LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Third Order, Charlottetown Accord
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Will post a reading list to follow in regard to the exam. Next week, will give a guide for what to study. Formally moving off of precarious forms of citizenship (drug users, sex workers) De(cid:271)ate that disappea(cid:396)s, it"s (cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:373)o(cid:396)e of the pu(cid:271)lic consciousness. Solution was not to improve the system, but to eliminate it entirely. Eliminate the aboriginals altogether, get rid of the indian status, and have everyone be the same. Aboriginal communities themselves were not in this conversation. Royal commissions talking about how to deal with the aboriginals. Three kind of indians in canada that fall through the indian status; metis, Very different groups, but all kind of have the same status. Primarily circle around the fact that there are so many missing and murdered. Divide when we talk about the canadian society, and what we see on the reserves. Problem of depicting aboriginal people as purely victims.