Feed Your Mind Talk: A Love Letter to Section 25 of the Canadian Constitution

Wed. Feb. 25 12:30 PM - Wed. Feb. 25 01:30 PM
Contact: Dr. Matthew Hamilton- m.hamilton@uwinnipeg.ca
Location: Room 115, Merchants Corner, 541 Selkirk Avenue

Join us at Merchants Corner for a discussion on Indigenous rights with Dr. Peter Kulchyski!

“A Love Letter to Section 25 of the Canadian Constitution” is a discussion of why Canada’s constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights, which developed in part as a response to the federal government’s reprehensible 1969 white paper initiative, is superior structurally to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

While s 35 recognizing and affirming Aboriginal and treaty rights has been the subject of many Supreme Court of Canada cases, only one Supreme Court of Canada case deals in any depth with s 25 (the 1999 Corbiere case).

This presentation, based in part on a chapter of Kulchyski’s book “Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice,” will argue that s 25 is a critical part of Canada’s Indigenous rights architecture.

About the Speaker

Peter Kulchyski (non-Indigenous) was born and raised in Bissett, MB, attending a government run residential high school (Frontier Collegiate in Cranberry Portage).

He studied Politics at UWinnipeg and YorkU (Toronto), becoming a leading scholar in Indigenous Studies and a social justice activist.

He has taught Native/Indigenous Studies at USaskatchewan, TrentU and for the last 25 years at UManitoba.

He has produced ten books, the most recent is “Mode of Production: The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory”
(Brill; co-authored with Henry Heller).

A pizza lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Dr. Matthew Hamilton at m.hamilton@uwinnipeg.ca.