A well known Wet’suwet’en advocate of increased Indigenous participation in the economy is in the running to potentially be the candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Skeena – Bulkley Valley riding during the next federal election.
Theresa Tait-Day says the residential school apology made by then-Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper back in 2008 was a needed first step toward reconciliation and she believes that as an Indigenous Conservative Member of Parliament, she can continue to move reconciliation along even further through jobs and economic opportunity for Indigenous peoples.
Tait-Day said that while Harper does deserve credit for the residential school apology, his government then did not have the opportunity to advance reconciliation through the economy.
She also said the main roadblock to Indigenous economic participation is the Indian Act which inhibits the ability of Indigenous people and organizations to borrow money and build equity.
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