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SAINT JOHN, N.B. The appointment of Mary Simon as Canada s Governor General is a moment for the history books – as the advocate, ambassador and Inuk leader becomes the country s first ever Indigenous person in that position. In the Maritimes, Indigenous leaders are welcoming word of the decision, as a monumental moment and major step on the path of reconciliation, as Simon herself has noted. To know that it s an Indigenous woman who is going to be representing all Canadians, not just Indigenous, but all Canadians, says Lorraine Whitman of the Native Women s Association of Canada. She certainly has the credentials to be able to do it, and so I m certainly excited in that it is a historical moment.
Even after a national inquiry found that the violence against us is genocide, and despite the federal government’s pledge to deliver a national plan to stop…
Even after a national inquiry found that the violence against us is genocide, and despite the federal government’s pledge to deliver a national plan to stop…