Canadian aboriginals and policy-makers have one major choice to make — to embrace Canadian society and modernity at large or to retreat back to a time before the Europeans arrived. Canadian society has many benefits to embrace while maintaining a unique native identity in our national character. The editorial points out the disgrace that aboriginals are six times as likely to be jailed at non-aboriginals. The obvious cause is that aboriginals per capita are six times as likely to commit offences resulting in incarceration as non-aboriginals, despite the preferential sentencing rules they enjoy. Throughout the late 1960s she was a political advocate for changes in civil rights and the rights of children.

Source: National Post August 23, 2016 18:22 UTC