Sheryl Lightfoot, Canada Research Chair in global Indigenous rights and politics at UBC, spoke to Maclean’s about the disconnect between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
“Most of the people in Canada who are non-Indigenous have immigrated from somewhere else, so the understanding is if things are hard, you can go somewhere else,” she said. “That’s a different base assumption than for Indigenous people, who have been living here since time immemorial. That’s not their history.”
