It is necessary that the nations that have given rise to this situation condemn colonialism acknowledging their behaviour as a crime, reconcile with their past, apologize and compensate the colonized countries.
This decision will help create a climate of friendship and cooperation among peoples and create an extremely positive precedent in international relations, promoting the supremacy of the "force of law" on the "law of force".
Newsletter 03/22 - Reparations to First Nations, Inuit and Métis
On June 4, 2021, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights urge Canadian authorities and the Catholic Church to conduct prompt and thorough investigations into the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of over two hundred children at a British Columbia "residential school" for indigenous children forcibly taken from their homes.
On September 9, 2021 the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples petitions the United Nations Human Rights Committee against Canada for continued discrimination against natives living off-reserve, Métis and Inuit despite the favourable decision of the Supreme Court.
On September 29, 2021, the day before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Federal Court dismisses the appeal of the Canadian Government against the ruling of the Human Rights Tribunal that in 2019 sentenced it to pay compensation of 40.000 Canadian dollars each to about fifty thousand native children taken from their families since 2006.
On October 29, 2021 the Canadian Government appeals to the Federal Court of Appeal against the previous month's ruling of the Federal Court but at the same time opens to an out-of-court resolution by the end of the year.
On January 4, 2022 the Canadian Government announces the agreements-in-principle with the Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, the Chiefs of Ontario, the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and counsels for two class actions to final legally binding agreements that provide for 20 billion Canadian dollars to compensate native children who have continued to be taken away from their families in recent decades and for another 20 billion Canadian dollars to reform in the long term the discriminatory system of child services to be defined in the coming months, during which it will obviously be important to maintain high attention.
Colonialism Reparation welcomes the agreements-in-principle of 40 billion Canadian dollars to compensate native children who have continued to be taken away from their families in recent decades and to reform in the long term the discriminatory system of child services to be confirmed by final legally binding agreements to be defined in the coming months and asks that France, the United Kingdom and Canada present apologies and compensations for the entire colonial and apartheid period.
