Poll Question: February 08, 2023 to February 14, 2023
In 1969 then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien proposed ending the Indian Act which basically makes aboriginals wards of a federal government department in Ottawa. When, the chiefs objected, Trudeau famously said: “Okay, stay in your ghetto”.
Background information – Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, 1969