Mark Carney wants to reform or repeal the Indian Act. He announced on October 26 that he would instruct premiers and ministers to work with First Nations to achieve this. But the removal or reform of the Indian Act is a herculean task that would require the Canadian state to confront one of its defining contradictions, rooted in its history: the fact that it is a colonial entity from which certain…

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Good article. Do you remove it completely and not replace, even if they lose what little benefits the act provides? Or do they replace it with something else, but then it's still a class system?

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