What We Call It Now
A signature, a stamp, a line in a bill’s preamble: this is how land still changes hands in Canada, four centuries after the Doctrine of Discovery did the same work with different words. Nancy Perin traces the line from residential schools to Bill C-5, the current federal law Indigenous leaders say was passed without real consultation, and asks what “national interest” is actually a replacement for. A course, a definition, a courtroom challenge, and one uncomfortable question: whose story is this, really?
