In Canada, National Aboriginal Day is commemorated each year on June 21. When this day was first proclaimed by the Governor General of Canada in 1996, the Canadian Constitution recognized the three groups of Aboriginal peoples: First Nations, Inuit and Métis; each possessing their own diverse heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.
Recently, a United Latinos of UFCW committee of inquiry returned from a fact-finding mission in the agriculture area of the B.C. Lower Mainland. What the committee was told by workers and advocates supported allegations now in front of the B.C. Labour Board that the Mexico consular service in Vancouver had blacklisted some its own citizens working in Canada suspected of being union supporters.
Number of people who identify themselves as Aboriginals in Canada.
The recent dramatic changes forced through by the Conservatives' omnibus budget will result in a Canadian society where corporations and their rich friends are the beneficiaries of Harper’s Canada.
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