Anonymous ID: 1d587a Feb. 7, 2019, 3:52 p.m. No.5071397   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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If you’re keeping score at home, the statutory holiday is item No. 80 (of 94) in the list of action items flowing from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Trudeau promised to do ‘em all—well, he originally promised to do ‘em all but then curtailed that “all” to the 76 under federal jurisdiction—and hasn’t managed to do many of them, as the government’s own promise tracker attests. The same holds true for many of the recommendations in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, another suite of pledges guaranteed by Trudeau. It isn’t exactly the new relationship that was promised.

 

Hence the Liberals’ plucking of the holiday—the lowest of low-hanging fruit—from the list. But will the day off have its intended effect?

 

Giving a day off work to all federal employees usually isn’t the best way to get anything done, other than create traffic jams on the 5, 50, 416 and 417. Should we expect a holiday on such a serious question to produce a different result? It’s not likely.

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https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/justin-trudeau-offers-the-lowest-of-low-hanging-fruit-to-canadas-indigenous-peoples/

 

This anon's opinion: Trudeau pays lip service to Indigenous Canadians.