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BC Humanist Association poised to sue the City of Parksville over prayer (www.cheknews.ca)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19670880

“The 2015 decision by the Supreme Court in Saguenay, (QC), prohibits municipal councils from including prayer in their meetings and in the last two inaugural meetings, in 2018 and 2022, Parksville has included prayers, overtly religious prayers, in their inaugural meetings and that’s a violation of the constitution,” said Teale Phelps Bondaroff, the research coordinator with the BC Humanist Association.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I would say it's because our white-man* laws came after, and the typical indigenous pretext at meetings is acknowledging that we are gathered on the unceded territory. So really they are letting us have a meeting with their blessing/permission.

Also they say unceded as a nice way; instead of juat saying stolen with acts of genocide.

*or woman ~ Monty Python