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Greetings,
We would like to invite you to
sign the Open Letter to Stephen Harper regarding the Federal Government's
funding of First Nations University of Canada. The letter is reproduced below.
If you wish to sign the letter, please go to http://www.caut.ca/fnuc/ and click
on the line "Add your signature to this letter." I hope you will do so and will
forward this email as widely as possible. Unless we can get the Federal
Government to restore full funding, the First Nations University will not
survive.[/size]
Your
respectfully,
James L. Turk
Executive Director/Directeur
général
Canadian Association of University
Teachers/
Association canadienne des
professeures et professeurs d’université
2705,
promenade Queensview Drive, Ottawa (Ontario) K2B
8K2
Tel/Tél: 613-726-5176,
Mobile: 613-277-0488,
Fax/Téléc:
613-820-7244
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OPEN LETTER
April 2010
The Hon. Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Dear Prime Minister:
In June 2008 you did what no prime minister before
has been willing to do – offer an apology to former students of Indian
residential schools. In that apology you noted that “Two primary objectives of
the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the
influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate
them into the dominant culture.”
Now, less than two years later, your government is
forcing the closure of Canada’s only First Nations university -- the sole
university in Canada based on First Nations traditions and cultures. By refusing
to restore full funding for First Nations University, your government will now
make it impossible for First Nations university students to study in an
institution based on First Nations traditions and cultures.
There is a bitter irony in your government’s action,
coming as it does after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) has
addressed all of the concerns that have been expressed about the University’s
governance structure and after the FSIN, the First Nations University, the
University of Regina and the Government of Saskatchewan have entered into a
partnership agreement to ensure proper financial and administrative management
of First Nations University.
Your government’s refusal to restore full funding,
which will cause the University to close after August 31, 2010, is an act of
disrespect to First Nations peoples in Canada and a continuation of the very
practices for which you apologized in June, 2008.
We urge you to back up your 2008 apology by restoring
full Federal funding to First Nations University immediately so that it can grow
and expand, not have to wind down and close.
Yours truly,
[size=9]TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS OPEN LETTER, GO TO:
http://www.caut.ca/fnuc/
We would like to invite you to
sign the Open Letter to Stephen Harper regarding the Federal Government's
funding of First Nations University of Canada. The letter is reproduced below.
If you wish to sign the letter, please go to http://www.caut.ca/fnuc/ and click
on the line "Add your signature to this letter." I hope you will do so and will
forward this email as widely as possible. Unless we can get the Federal
Government to restore full funding, the First Nations University will not
survive.[/size]
Your
respectfully,
James L. Turk
Executive Director/Directeur
général
Canadian Association of University
Teachers/
Association canadienne des
professeures et professeurs d’université
2705,
promenade Queensview Drive, Ottawa (Ontario) K2B
8K2
Tel/Tél: 613-726-5176,
Mobile: 613-277-0488,
Fax/Téléc:
613-820-7244
-------------------------------------------------------------------
OPEN LETTER
April 2010
The Hon. Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Dear Prime Minister:
In June 2008 you did what no prime minister before
has been willing to do – offer an apology to former students of Indian
residential schools. In that apology you noted that “Two primary objectives of
the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the
influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate
them into the dominant culture.”
Now, less than two years later, your government is
forcing the closure of Canada’s only First Nations university -- the sole
university in Canada based on First Nations traditions and cultures. By refusing
to restore full funding for First Nations University, your government will now
make it impossible for First Nations university students to study in an
institution based on First Nations traditions and cultures.
There is a bitter irony in your government’s action,
coming as it does after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) has
addressed all of the concerns that have been expressed about the University’s
governance structure and after the FSIN, the First Nations University, the
University of Regina and the Government of Saskatchewan have entered into a
partnership agreement to ensure proper financial and administrative management
of First Nations University.
Your government’s refusal to restore full funding,
which will cause the University to close after August 31, 2010, is an act of
disrespect to First Nations peoples in Canada and a continuation of the very
practices for which you apologized in June, 2008.
We urge you to back up your 2008 apology by restoring
full Federal funding to First Nations University immediately so that it can grow
and expand, not have to wind down and close.
Yours truly,
[size=9]TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS OPEN LETTER, GO TO:
http://www.caut.ca/fnuc/
