UN special rapporteur ends 10-day trip to Canada with call for ‘timely and accessible remedy’ to discriminatory laws
women who were stripped of their Indian status, along with the associated rights, through discriminatory federal laws.
For more than 100 years, up until 1985, whenever a First Nations woman married a non-status man, her status was taken away.During his trip – the first to Canada in a decade of a special rapporteur focused on Indigenous rights – Mr. Cali Tzay said he witnessed the “enduring effect” of racial discrimination in Canada.
Mr. Cali Tzay, a long-time Indigenous-rights advocate who is a Mayan Cakchiquel from Guatemala, met with Indigenous organizations and leaders, as well as federal ministers. He travelled to five provinces, though said that the Government of Alberta declined his invitation to meet. He is set to complete a final report on his visit, along with recommendations, in September.
He said he heard “disturbing reports” of growing denialism in the country in relation to the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools and called for misinformation to be countered with education efforts.
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