Government of the Northwest Territories Response to the Final Report: Special Committee on the Review of the Official Languages Act
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Discusses the Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint filed by John Melenchuk regarding a controversial pamphlet sent out by Saskatoon Member of Parliament Jim Pankiw. At one point in the article Michael Woodiwiss contends that the essential difference between crimes committed by colonizers and contemporary Aboriginals is that the formers’ crimes went unpunished and mostly unrecorded.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Research paper analyzes Section 87 of the Indian Act and finds that only 5.6% of Aboriginal people could potentially qualify for income tax exemption.
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