Canada’s latest Russia sanctions target those who deported, indoctrinated, and militarized thousands of Ukrainian children. Here’s what the Canada Gazette tells us about who is on the list.
I wonder if keeping the primary focus on individuals rather than on Russian state institutions deliberate to try to keep the hypocrisy less visible?
Taking children from domestic nations (Inuit, First Nations) and transferring them away from their communities has defined Canada’s historical assimilation policies and echoes into the modern child welfare system.
Even with the recent 2020 coming into force of Bill C-92 (An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families), children of other nationalities are regularly still treated as "just another Canadian" by a system that fixates on the Western European concept of Westphalian sovereignty and ignores – or seeks to erode – the relational (AKA: inherent, genos, peoples) sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.
The “millenium scoop” is still underway.
I'm not excusing what Russia does as a political entity that exploits historical grievances—such as the long, deeply rooted history of Western European exploitation of Slavic peoples (the literal etymology of the word 'slave') to claim the mantle of 'protector' against institutions like NATO and the UN's WEOG. But I don't think Canada is being honest in its participation when it ignores its own ongoing multi-generational colonization policies.
I wonder if keeping the primary focus on individuals rather than on Russian state institutions deliberate to try to keep the hypocrisy less visible?
Taking children from domestic nations (Inuit, First Nations) and transferring them away from their communities has defined Canada’s historical assimilation policies and echoes into the modern child welfare system.
Even with the recent 2020 coming into force of Bill C-92 (An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families), children of other nationalities are regularly still treated as "just another Canadian" by a system that fixates on the Western European concept of Westphalian sovereignty and ignores – or seeks to erode – the relational (AKA: inherent, genos, peoples) sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.
The “millenium scoop” is still underway.
I'm not excusing what Russia does as a political entity that exploits historical grievances—such as the long, deeply rooted history of Western European exploitation of Slavic peoples (the literal etymology of the word 'slave') to claim the mantle of 'protector' against institutions like NATO and the UN's WEOG. But I don't think Canada is being honest in its participation when it ignores its own ongoing multi-generational colonization policies.