Our Voices

Denise Williams is on the Leadership Group for the Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship (deadline March 1 2019).

February 5, 2019, the Indigenous Languages Act was tabled in the House of Commons for First Reading.  It was a promise by the Liberal Government to table the Act and to get it through before the end of June.  It has to go through this sitting as a Federal election will happen in October and if it

I cannot help but reflect this morning on what foolish leaders we have at the head of Canada and BC.

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced on February 14, 2018 that the Government of Canada will develop – in full partnership with indigenous peoples – a Recognition and I

I remember the happiness and good energy when John Horgan accepted being Premier of the province.  Gone was Christy Clark and her regressive government! Oh, happy day!!

It is hard to describe how I felt when I heard that the government of BC approved the Site C dam to continue.  That this was the consensus of the cabinet makes it even more incredulous to me and I am very disillusioned with what I had hoped to be a change in values and methods of government.

One of the biggest problems First Nations have always had is having non First Nations people understand what is important to us and why.  The Supreme Court of Canada decision rendered yesterday in the case of Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia shows that clearly.