Tomorrow, September 30th, is the second National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Canada. The "Orange Shirt Day" acknowledges survivors of (and those who died in) residential schools. The day was the TRC's Call to Action 80 and made a federal holiday last year. A settler's 🧵.
In the lead up to this year's holiday I was surprised (only a little) by the rapidity of the government's desire to re-embrace the 🇬🇧's colonialism. Particularly when the new sovereign is a religious crusader repeatedly rejecting calls to denounce the Doctrine of Discovery.
The monarch of the UK was accepted as Head of State in Canada without so much as a debate in the House of Commons. I hope that tomorrow causes more people in Canada to pause and think about the de-colonialization of our country and how to achieve Reconciliation in law and life.
#TheCaseAgainstPoverty threads repeatedly use the Crown as a noun because that's what our system is right now; it isn't a desire to keep having a Crown to deal with. Especially when officials double down on repressing indigenous voices while giving platforms to the convoy crowd.
There has been significant progress on Reconciliation in some areas but systemic abuse prevails because Canada's economy is a colonial model and the social construct normalizes behaviour that is actually harmful.
Politicians could begin with a public commitment to value Indigenous peoples more than foreign capital. We could stop Canadian mining companies from replicating the colonial abuses from here in the global south. Reconciliation can do a lot more for #PeopleNotProfit in general.
Keep an eye open to verify your #EveryChildMatters and #OrangeShirtDay merch is actually getting $ to Indigenous peoples & causes. In addition to the Calls to Action there are also 230 recommendations from the National inquiry on MMIWG(2S).
mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
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