Abstract
This chapter considers the work of scholars examining concepts such as transitional justice and counterinsurgency and argues that, by manufacturing reconciliation in Canada in ways that fall short of rights entitlements, Crown representatives may be seeking to relegate settler-colonialism merely to the past (as something that had merely historical impacts) in order to achieve better assimilative outcomes through a structure of historical ignorance. To illustrate, this chapter considers changes to Indigenous land claims processes at the federal level as well as provincial actions that could be seen as limiting with respect to Indigenous claims.
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- 1.
Indian Act, RSC 1985, c I-5 [Indian Act].
- 2.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Looking Forward, Looking back, Vol 1 (Ottawa: The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996) at 250 [RCAP]; Ibid., s 141.
- 3.
Canada Act 1982, c 11 (UK).
- 4.
Constitution Act, 1982, RSC 1985, App II, No 44, Parts I & II.
- 5.
R v Calder, [1973] SCR 313, 34 DLR (3d) 145.
- 6.
R v Guerin, [1984] 2 SCR 335, 13 DLR (4th) 321.
- 7.
R v Van der Peet, [1996] 2 SCR 507, 137 DLR (4th) 289.
- 8.
R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 SCR 1075, 70 DLR (4th) 385.
- 9.
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, [1997] 3 SCR 1010, 153 D.L.R. (4th) 193.
- 10.
R v Marshall, 2005 SCC 43.
- 11.
Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44 [Tsilhqot'in].
- 12.
Specific Claims Tribunal Act, SC 2008, c 22, s 14 [SCTA].
- 13.
Ibid., s 19.
- 14.
Ibid., s 15.
- 15.
Ibid., s 15(1)(f).
- 16.
Ibid., s 15(1)(e).
- 17.
Ibid., s 15(1)(g).
- 18.
Ibid., s 15(1)(d).
- 19.
Ibid., s 15(1)(b).
- 20.
Ibid., s 15(1)(a).
- 21.
Ibid., s 15(3).
- 22.
Ibid., ss, 15(4), 20(1)(b).
- 23.
Ibid., s 15(1)(b).
- 24.
Ibid., s 15(1)(a).
- 25.
Ibid., ss, 15(4), 20(1)(b).
- 26.
Constitution Act, 1867, RSC 1985, App II, No 5, s 92(13).
- 27.
Ibid., s 91(24).
- 28.
Tsilhqot'in, supra note 11.
- 29.
Ibid. at paras 1–2, 51–66, 95–97.
- 30.
Ibid. at paras 10–18, 101–116.
- 31.
Ibid. at paras 153.
- 32.
Ibid. at paras 24–32, 50.
- 33.
The Heritage Manitoba Act, RSM 1987, c H39, s 9.
- 34.
Bill 29, The Reducing Red Tape and Improving Services Act, 2020, 3rd Sess, 42nd Leg, 2020 (as passed by the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 20 May 2021), online: https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/42-3/b029e.php.
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Singh, S., Trask, B. (2024). Faded by Design: Manufacturing Agnosis of Settler-Colonialism in an Era of Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. In: Gacek, J., Jochelson, R. (eds) Justice in the Age of Agnosis. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54354-8_6
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