Food for Thought: Access to Food in Canada’s Remote North
Alternate Title
Commentary (Northern Policy Institute) ; no. 12
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Author/Creator
Holly Dillabough
Theme of the Conference was "We Listen, They Speak" and featured speakers were Inuit, First Nations and Metis.
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.