OP-ED: It time to end special privileges for First Nations
Aboriginal leaders would lose some privileges accorded under the constitution, but Aboriginal peoples would gain immeasurable benefits, including being treated equally under the law
Authors: Peter Best & Hymie Rubenstein
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government (George Washington’s farewell address).
A plan that can never be changed is a bad one.
The plan behind the 1982 enactment of sections 25, 35, and 37 of Canada’s Constitution – sections that recognizes and affirms “the existing rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada” – is working out so badly for Canada it must be repealing.
