RAIC Journal: President’s Message
Kashechewan is a First Nations community in Northern Ontario. The stark living conditions remind Allan Teramura of the internment camp in British Columbia where his relatives lived during the Second World War.
La bande de Kashechewan est une communauté des Premières Nations du nord de l?Ontario. Ses conditions de vie austères ont rappelé à Allan Teramura le camp d?internement en Colombie-Britannique dans lequel ses ancêtres ont vécu pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
In my Presidential Investiture address earlier this year, I discussed the need for the RAIC to advocate for improved living conditions in indigenous communities. As well, the keynote speaker for the occasion, novelist and educator Joseph Boyden, delivered a powerful, beautiful and unsparing depiction of life in some of Canada?s troubled indigenous communities. His call for a more responsible and sensitive approach to working in these settlements received a standing ovation from the 120 architects in attendance. The health and sustainability of First Nations communities is an advocacy issue I intend to spend a significant amount of energy on during my term in office, as I did previously as Regional Director for Ontario North, East and Nunavut. There are few moments in our lives that we can pinpoint as life-changing, but for me, my trip in 2014 to Kashechewan?a remote First Nations reserve in Northern Ontario?was one. Reconciliation with indigenous Canadians is the defining issue of our time, and I beli...
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