POL101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Canadian Human Rights Act, Kelowna Accord, Transitional Justice
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Jung 2015 canada and the indian residential schools. This article argues the ongoing battle of transnational justice for indigenous people from the government. Temporal justice, not just about residential schools, about the polices, needs to address to the policies from before, aboriginal people want to talk about it. Transitional justice measures offer opportunities for re-inscribing the responsibility of states toward their indigenous populations, empowering indigenous communities, responding to indigenous demands to be heard and rewriting history. Governments and indigenous peoples may differ over the scope of injustices that transitional justice measures can address. Governments may try to use transitional justice to draw a line through the past and legitimate present policy, whereas indigenous peoples may try to use the past to critique present policy and conditions. Governments may try to use transitional justice to assert their sovereign and legal authority, while indigenous peoples may make competing claims to sovereignty and legal authority.
