Get to know Canada’s new Indigenous think tank – TVO.org

Ryerson University’s Yellowhead Institute launches this week. We speak to Indigenous education adviser Hayden King about the complex process of reconciliation in post-secondary institutions

Jun 05, 2018

Ever since it was voted into federal government in 2015, the Liberal Party has produced a consistent stream of new policy changes and funding announcements for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities across the country. “It got to the point where there was so much happening — the amount of new legislations, the MOUs, agreements in principle,” says Hayden King, currently Indigenous education adviser to Ryerson University’s Faculty of Arts dean. “It’s dizzying really, the amount of new material the government is putting out.” This should constitute a rich field for analysis, but Canada does not yet have a research centre entirely devoted to Indigenous governance and policy issues. As the Toronto Star pointed out in a recent survey, this absence is deeply felt when it comes to who is most often invited to comment publicly on such policy issues.

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