Paige Raibmon is a settler scholar and mother who lives on the unceded, ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. She is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia and the editor of BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly. With Elsie Paul, Davis McKenzie and Harmony Johnson, she is co-author of the open access digital book As I Remember It: Teachings from the life of a Sliammon Elder.
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Hiding Behind the Myth of One ‘Rule of Law’
The “rule of law” to which Garneau refers is not a singular, universal given. He is not talking about “the” rule of law, but about the settler-colonial rule of law, the legal and constitutional order that undergirds the Canadian state. A legal order that is a newcomer on the scene.
February 19, 2020
