Redress through constitutional change: reimagining the Canada Round for its reparative potential

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dc.contributor.authorSherbino, Jordan
dc.contributor.supervisorJames, Matt
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-25T17:34:49Z
dc.date.available2022-04-25T17:34:49Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-04-25
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Canada Round was a period of megaconstitutional politics where many of the perennial topics of Canadian politics were viewed through a constitutional lens. This research analyzes the Canada Round of negotiations for its potential to act as a project in historical justice to address the state’s mistreatment of Indigenous peoples. By viewing constitutional change as a means of engaging in political redress, this research offers a corrective to understanding the dynamics of the Canada Round and provides an expanded understanding of redress to compensate for its limited and non-transformative nature in settler-colonial contexts by introducing the idea of redress constitutionalism. Through an analysis of the primary documents from the Canada Round, this research demonstrates that national Indigenous organizations—the Assembly of First Nations, the Métis National Council, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, and the Native Council of Canada—sought to employ constitutional change for its reparative potential to address long-standing injustices against Indigenous peoples in Canada caused or worsened by the constitution. Therefore, the failure to significantly renew the constitution was also a failure to significantly engage in redress, remedy their historical exclusion from decision making, and respond to the suppression of their self-determination.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13875
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectredressen_US
dc.subjecthistorical justiceen_US
dc.subjectCharlottetown Accorden_US
dc.subjectmegaconstitutionalismen_US
dc.subjectredress constitutionalismen_US
dc.subjectconstitutional changeen_US
dc.subjectCanada Rounden_US
dc.subjectconstitutional politicsen_US
dc.titleRedress through constitutional change: reimagining the Canada Round for its reparative potentialen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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