BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250928T111205EDT-4355XdVPHd@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250928T151205Z DESCRIPTION:With Professor Kathleen Mahoney\, KC\, FRSC and Phil Fontaine\n \nModerator – Professor Aaron Mills\n\nClosing Remarks Me. Tamara Thermitu s\, Ad.E.\n\n \n\nThe British North America Act\, held up as Canada’s most important historical achievement\, is understood as the constitutional be drock of Canadian identity as well as the foundation for the free and demo cratic nation Canadians believe ourselves to be.\n\nBut here’s the problem : our origin story is wrong. In 1996\, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples wrote\, “A country cannot be built on a living lie.” It is imperat ive that the error of omission in Canada’s origin story be formally correc ted by legislation if the rule of law is to have meaning at the very root of our Canadian democracy.\n\nSpeaker bios:\n\nProfessor Kathleen E. Mahon ey is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Calgary and King’s Co unsel\, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was the Chief Neg otiator for Canada’s Indigenous peoples claim for the Indian Residential S chool policy and the abuse inflicted on students. She was the primary arch itect of the TRC and led the negotiations for the historic apology. \n\nPh il Fontaine is the owner of Ishkonigan Inc.\, a company specializing in In digenous engagement\, consultation and negotiation. Mr. Fontaine is also t he Special Advisor of the Royal Bank of Canada. Mr. Fontaine served as Nat ional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for an unprecedented three te rms. \n DTSTART:20231002T170000Z DTEND:20231002T183000Z LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court Hall SUMMARY:How Canada’s Misleading Origin Story Corrupts Canadian Identity and the rule of law URL:/law/channels/event/how-canadas-misleading-origin- story-corrupts-canadian-identity-and-rule-law-351208 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR