FieldNotes

There’s more press today on BC Premier Campbell’s idea that aboriginals be recognized as a nation within Canada. This post will serve as the repository for these links.

Campbell takes the First Nations lead (Victoria Times Colonist)

More and more, the B.C. Liberals are focusing their second term on aboriginal concerns, either voluntarily, as with the premier’s think piece, or because they’re forced into it

Recognizing nations within strengthens the nation as a whole (Vancouver Sun)

Although the prime minister has been silent on Campbell’s suggestion, it has much to recommend it. After all, aboriginal peoples are clearly a nation — or more accurately, a group of nations — by Harper’s own sociological definition of the word: “People with a culture, a history, an identity.”