Wed, Sep 30, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Meeting Recording:
Action Evenings presents:
Reconciliation is a Massive Failure
Guest speaker: Bruce McIvor, lawyer, historian, and principal of First Peoples Law Corporation.
Wednesday, September 30, 7:00-8:00pmP
Please arrive early in order to be admitted through the waiting room.
Reconciliation continues to fail because it rests on a foundation of systemic racism.
We’ll be discussing what makes reconciliation problematic and how to shift the way we think about Canada’s history and relationship to Indigenous peoples.
Bruce McIvor, lawyer and historian, is principal of First Peoples Law Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law where he teaches the constitutional law of Aboriginal and Treaty rights.
Bruce is a proud Métis from the Red River in Manitoba. He holds a Ph.D. in Aboriginal and environmental history and is a Fulbright Scholar. A member of the bar in British Columbia and Ontario, Bruce is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading practitioner of Aboriginal law in Canada.
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