Understanding Social Control: The Aboriginal Experience in Canada

This paper analyzes the social control mechanisms imposed on Aboriginal communities in Canada, highlighting historical injustices and ongoing disparities. It discusses the legacy of residential schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and socioeconomic challenges faced by Aboriginal peoples, including poverty, infant mortality, and criminal detention rates. The paper examines treaties, discrimination, and the role of the legal industry in perpetuating or addressing these issues. It emphasizes the need for reconciliation, acknowledging past wrongs and fostering a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. The author references key reports and calls for the legal community to understand the history and experiences of indigenous people to move forward, advocating for courses on indigenous legislation and culture for legal practitioners.

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Introduction
Canada is considered as extensively honored the diversity of the population. However,
the treatment of Canada towards the treatment made to the aboriginals communities regarded as
national tragedy as well as an international disgrace. The aboriginal people of Canada
historically have either denied or condemned in addition to that disregard by the mainstream
population of the society. The aboriginals are disregarded as the problematic community whose
issue was designated by denial to abandon past in return for present realities (Manuel &
Derrickson, 2015). The connection between the aboriginal community of Canada and the
population who are non-indigenous had never been treated on the same level. Though the
national constitution of 1982 appreciates the right of aboriginal people. The paper explores the
social control over the aboriginal people and legal industry require to comprehend the issue face
by the particular community in Canada.
Discussion
The procedure of revealing the darkest episode of the country has just begun. Canada,
like Australia has stolen generations. Furthermore, about 150,000 of the aboriginals children be
present at residential that is carried out by churches over a period of more than 100 years (Miller,
2018). The goal of the schools was to develop Inuit, First Nations as well as Merits and also to
breakdown connection to identities and cultures. The government has constructed the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission of Canada in the year 2008 to educate the people of Canada
regarding the residential school structure as well as its impacts (Milloy, 2017). The Truth and
Reconciliation refer to the progress of curricula that are culturally appropriate, the advancement
of the application of aboriginal language, and also enhancement of program concerning
aboriginals on the Canada national public broadcaster. The reports and hearing of TRC are the

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inaugurations. The socioeconomic information reveals the major demarcation between the non-
aboriginal and aboriginal Canadians. The issue faces by the aboriginal people of Canada are
infant mortality, poverty, criminal detention suicide rates, women abuse, child prostitution are
prevalent among the aboriginals. Many children are detached from families by the welfare
agencies. The recent complaint of police harassment emphasizes the complicated daily life of the
aboriginal communities in addition to the systematic disparity that they witnessed. The treaties
that are formulated on the basis of the association between the governmental authority and 1.5
million of aboriginal Canadians who are about 4% of populations (Kovach, 2015). The
negotiation of the treaty is identified by the coercion, as well as several provisions of the treaty
never executed. The banning of conventional ceremonies has an especially disturbing outcome
on the manner of life of aboriginals. It has been marked by the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Canada that the current manner of discrimination is embedded deeply in the past
history of injustice to the aboriginal community (SINCLAIR, 2020). The Prime minister of
Canada named Justin Trudeau held that during the period of the election campaign, the
residential school structure created “cultural genocide.” The Trudeau’s government officially
adopted
The United Nations Declaration concerning the entitlements of the indigenous
community and also structures national investigation to more than 1000 who are missing or the
aboriginals women murdered over three decades (Flanagan, 2019). The prior conservative
government disallowed the investigation said the criminal issue unassociated to the systematic
disparity. However, there should be a mutually respectful association, initiatives for the
enhancement of the condition of the aboriginal people involving the statutory traditions as well
as the authority should be identified as equal and valid for the rest of the community. Therefore

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reconciliation implies open to progress. The reconciliation is not regarded as an aboriginal
concern; it is a Canadian concern. The article issued in the initiative towards the reconciliation of
the indigenous community. The article published in the year November 2019 reveals, “Legal
industry needs to understand the truth of Canadian indigenous history if we truly want to
move forward.” Murray Sinclair, who functioned as Chief Commissioner of Truth and
Reconciliation Commission that is termed as TRC and also facilitates the justice structure in
Manitoba for more than 25 years. He was the first judge from the aboriginal community
appointed by Manitoba and then Canada. According to him, he entered the profession having
little information about the culture, history, and experiences of the indigenous people in the
country of Canada. That time Section 141 of the Indian Act forbid the indigenous individuals
from appointing a lawyer to look after their land allegations. The lawyer who pleads for the
indigenous people may have jailed or disbarred. The indigenous children are forcibly removed
from their parents for the purpose of removing racial identity and aboriginal cultures.
Conclusion
The conclusion had been drawn that the Canadian government has cause cultural
genocide. So it is important particularly for the legal community to start its journey to the
process of reconciliation. Therefore for that reason, TRC called the Federation of Law Societies
to guarantee that legal practitioners need students to adopt courses in indigenous individuals and
legislation. The first development of reconciliation is to acknowledge the severity of what
happened to the aboriginal children.

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