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“I wish you and your sisters would take it out of your head that somehow we are deliberately trying to frustrate the concept of equality,” he said during a constitutional conference in Ottawa.
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The conference was designed to clarify how the 1982 constitution, which had repatriated Canada’s founding documents from Britain and created the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, would incorporate Indigenous rights.
The young woman, Mary Simon, who is now set to become Canada’s next Governor General, pushed back and argued with Trudeau Sr. that it was essential the law make clear men and women would be able to pass on their Indigenous status, regardless of whether they married non-Indigenous people.
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