Protecting First Nations' powers would complete Confederation

Two-thousand-and-seventeen marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation. It’s often called the “birth” of Canada, but Confederation didn’t bring real independence nor did it include all sovereign governments in British North America. Confederation was based on the fiction that First Nations title and jurisdiction didn’t exist — a founding myth that has been busted many times by the courts in the last 40 years.
This fiction was used to justify many wrongs. The