The Court on Historical Redress
Cameron MacLean and Chanakya Sethi of Osgoode Hall’s The Court mention a post about Justice Iacabucci and the legacy of residential schools:
Iacobucci on Historical Redress
“If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young,” wrote N.F. Davin in an 1879 report commissioned by the Canadian federal government with the end of emulating the system of American Industrial Schools for natives. Unfortunately, the Canadian government followed Davin’s wretched advice. Slaw’s Omar Ha-Redeye considers the consequences, and their ongoing resolution, in context of a recent speech given by former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci…
