<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-small-12 gmail-inset gmail-columns gmail-center" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px;width:952px;float:left;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:"Merriweather Sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:912px;max-width:100%"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><h1 class="gmail-article__headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:2.44444rem;letter-spacing:-0.025em;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Justice, education and child protection targets of Alberta Liberals’ Indigenous policy platform</h1></div></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:"Merriweather Sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:952px;max-width:100%"><div class="gmail-small-12 gmail-inset gmail-columns" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px;width:952px;float:left"><div class="gmail-article__body gmail-clearfix gmail-article-story-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1rem"><div class="gmail-no-right-rail" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-article__meta gmail-article__meta_padding" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 23px;color:rgb(115,115,115);width:912px"><div class="gmail-inset" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px"><div class="gmail-article__byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.01em;line-height:1.3"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">By </span><span class="gmail-article__author" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-article__author-name" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;letter-spacing:0.32px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.thestar.com/authors.saba_rosa.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,101,164);background-color:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Rosa Saba</span></a></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-article__author-credit" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:7px;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:0.32px;line-height:16px">Star Calgary</span></span></span></div><div class="gmail-article__published-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:0.32px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px;font-style:italic">Thu., March 21, 2019</div></div><div class="gmail-clearfix gmail-share-toolbar" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;height:52px;border-top:1px solid rgb(235,235,235);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(235,235,235);border-right-color:rgb(235,235,235);border-left-color:rgb(235,235,235);background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail-share-toolbar__body" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;height:52px;width:872px;border-spacing:0px;border:0px;font-size:1em;float:none"></div><div class="gmail-clearfix gmail-sticky-replace gmail-sticky-replace--inset" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;height:52px;overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail-sticky-replace__body" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;height:52px"><ul class="gmail-share-toolbar__primary gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4;list-style:none"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;float:left"><a title="Share on Facebook" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,101,164);background-color:transparent;height:52px;font-size:1.2rem;display:block;padding-top:0.65rem;padding-right:0.75rem;padding-left:0.95rem;border-right:1px solid transparent;border-left:1px solid transparent"><i class="gmail-staricon gmail-staricon-facebook" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1;display:inline-block;color:rgb(59,89,152)"></i></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left"><a title="Share on Twitter" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,101,164);background-color:transparent;height:52px;font-size:1.2rem;display:block;padding-top:0.65rem;padding-right:0.75rem;padding-left:0.95rem;border-right:1px solid transparent;border-left:1px solid transparent"><i class="gmail-staricon gmail-staricon-twitter" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1;display:inline-block;color:rgb(85,172,238)"></i></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left"><a title="Share with email" st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ry-Peigan). Also present were elder Sally Black of the Siksika nation and former Alberta Liberal leader David Swann.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">Some of the party’s more ambitious policy promises included the addition of six Indigenous MLAs through a democratic election process, a reform of the provincial justice system, and the implementation of regional child protection offices.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">Khan called the child protection offices a “bold strategy” and said they would be run by Indigenous-led organizations. Implemented across Alberta in both rural and urban settings, he said the offices’ mandate would be to ensure Indigenous children stay connected to their culture and language.</p></div><div class="gmail-trackContentHidden gmail-blur_effect gmail-hideRegistration" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">He also promised Indigenous language immersion programs and curriculum revisions led by Indigenous peoples.</p></div><div class="gmail-html5 gmail-article-full-bleed-off" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1rem;overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail-html5-snippet gmail-hideRegistration" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"></div></div><div class="gmail-trackContent-7 gmail-blur_effect gmail-hideRegistration" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">The justice reform would include the use of “Aboriginal-based sentencing principles,” said Khan, as well as an amendment of the Jury Act to “<a href="https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/05/17/lack-of-indigenous-jurors-undermines-faith-in-canadian-justice-system-experts-warn.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,101,164);background-color:transparent">make juries more representative</a> of Alberta society.” He also promised to end police carding, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately affect Black and Indigenous people.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">“The time for rhetoric is over. The time for reconciliation is now,” he said. “We must move beyond just apologies.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">Some of the other policy points, such as providing training for public servants and improving school curriculums, <a href="https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/03/02/alberta-election-candidates-present-their-vision-for-the-future-of-public-education-at-all-party-forum.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,101,164);background-color:transparent">echo NDP policies</a> to which leader Rachel Notley is now pointing as proof of her party’s track record.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:TorstarTextO3,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:1.4">However, Robinson said she thinks the Liberal version of those points will be much more effective than she believes the NDP government has been.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>