Colonial Oppression at Elsipogtog: Right to Self-determination by Arthur Manuel

This story was filed on October 23, 2013

It is important to understand the dynamics of Colonialism and how it manifests itself inside Canada. Colonialism has basically three parts, dispossession, dependency and oppression. In Canada dispossession happened when the British North America Act 1867 (BNA Act) was passed in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain. The BNA Act 1867 was Canada’s first Constitution […]read more

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