SoVote

Decentralized Democracy

House Hansard - 9

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 2, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Dec/2/21 5:05:03 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the hon. member for rising. In the past session, he was a bulwark of the party's truth and reconciliation process, through which the government is engaging in the atrocities that have been uncovered in our residential schools across the country. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has denounced the doctrine of discovery. Four of the commission's calls to action, calls to action 45, 46, 47 and 49, urge the government to publicly disavow the racist and white supremacist notion of the doctrine of discovery. The Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly stated that the heart of reconciliation is to reconcile the pre-existing rights of indigenous peoples with the assertion of Crown sovereignty. The phrase “assertion of Crown sovereignty” is a Canadian euphemism for the doctrine of discovery. The Mohawk Institute Residential School, which is near my riding, is beginning its painful process of recovering bodies. As we know, close to 7,000 children have been recovered across the country so far. Given its correlation with the deaths of over 7,000 indigenous children, would the hon. member repudiate the doctrine of discovery?
192 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Dec/2/21 6:36:50 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, we know what it is like standing up as new members in this House. I know that the hon. member has spoken her people's history into this place in a way that will be recorded in Hansard forever. I would like to provide the hon. member the opportunity to finish her thoughts, or add more if there was anything missing from her reflections, to the House in this moment.
72 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border