Dumont: We all should stand with Cindy Blackstock

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Dumont: We all should stand with Cindy Blackstock – StarPhoenix

by ahnationtalk on March 21, 2018582 Views

While the case was making its way through the Human Rights Tribunal, Canada spied on Blackstock’s personal and public social media accounts. Why? Was she giving valuable intel to the Russians? Was she selling guns to terrorists? Was she running an underground smuggling ring? Nope, she was just standing up for Indigenous peoples, and in Canada that makes you a suspected enemy of the state.

March 21, 2018

Cindy Blackstock is a hero of mine who will never get the recognition she deserves, mostly because the Government of Canada is not likely to give you an Order of Canada after you sue it multiple times — and win.

Blackstock, a member of the Gitskan First Nation, is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. The Society is a non-profit that does not take any funding from the government. On Feb. 23, 2007, the Society filed a human rights complaint against the government for discriminatory funding of programs related to First Nations children.