One good thing about the recent changes to the HRC was the inclusion of Native Indian women. Before Native Indians were above the HRC's reach.
No longer can they be treated like washed up possessions. But 3 years wait is a long time.
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On First Nations, too, some good news is at hand. Thanks to changes that were finally pushed through by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, natives living on reserves will now enjoy the same rights under the HRA that non-natives have taken for granted for more than three decades. As of now, band members will be able to file human-rights complaints against Ottawa and their tribal leadership (though bands will have 36 months to adapt to the new legislative changes). We are particularly gratified on behalf of native women — who often are subject to the sort of institutionally sexist treatment that went extinct in white society almost a century ago.
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