Conflict and transformation has characterized the affiliation between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian authorities. Despite the fact that the Conservative authorities appeared to support Aboriginal objectives while it issued a historical regret in 2007 for the ill-treatment endured under the residential schools program and marked the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in 2008, it incorporated changes to the Indian Act in its 2012 omnibus Bill C-45 that place economic development ahead of environmental protection and violated numerous First Nations treaties.
In response, a group of First Nations activists began the Idle No More movement, which used social media to arrange demonstrations around the nation, including teach-ins, flash mob round dances and blockades of major transport routes. Although supported by many non-Aboriginal environmental and human rights groups both in Canada and abroad, the movement appeared to lose steam following the prime minister met Aboriginal leaders to outline eight essential items of consensus for action to address Aboriginal and treaty rights, health care, education and employment issues and Chief Theresa Spence frozen the hunger strike that had galvanized support. How could Idle No More organizers keep the impetus and awareness they had worked so hard to accomplish?
PUBLICATION DATE: July 09, 2013 PRODUCT #: W13326-PDF-ENG
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