May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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of colonialism on aboriginal people, through the inquiry,
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through, for example, Cindy Blackstock.
What's your own
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research shown in regards to the reason -- sorry, to the
impact of colonialism on the over, over-representation of
aboriginal children in the child welfare system?
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Well, colonialization is certainly an important
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factor in this over-representation.
We must think of
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colonization as including things like residential schools
and the nature of the way aboriginal people are
marginalized historically in society, but it also affects
some of the structural factors like poverty and so on that
are direct contributors to over-representation that -- the
over-representation of children in care.
The other related factor that's important to note
and, you know, we have to consider all of these things in
a, in a, in a general kind of way, is the fact that poverty
relates to issues such as addictions and other factors that
reflect parenting incapacity, and there is a relationship
between those, those two.
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So when we're talking about historical conditions
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like colonization, sixties scoop, those types of things,
those all have an impact on poverty, housing issues, those
other, other things that need addressing now --
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Yes.
-- is that what you're saying?
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