Harper Watch
Indigenous peoples are often shafted by
governments of colonizing nations, and Harper’s
Conservatives have proved yet again that Canada
is willing to pay little more than lip service to
Aboriginal rights. One of only four countries to
vote down the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in September, our government
feared that the “broadly worded” document might
conflict with existing treaties if it were given legal
weight. However, the symbolic document is legally
light as a feather, say critics.
—Nora Tennessen
