Oct 19, 2017 - An Evening with Lynn Gehl

When: Thursday October 19th, 7pm Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto ON As a Peterborough Ontario resident Lynn Gehl has tirelessly been working on a form of sex discrimination that was created in 1985 during the time when Canada claimed it amended the Indian Act to eliminate the sex discrimination to bring it in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As a non-status Indian Lynn began her Charter work in 1985, applied for Indian status registration in 1994, and began her protest and litigation process in 1995. It was in April of 2017 when it was determined by the Ontario Court of Appeal that it was "unreasonable" to deny her Indian status registration. Although she won her position Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Unstated Paternity Policy was struck, she was only granted the lesser form of Indian status: 6(2). Thus the second-generation cut-off rule was imposed on her where as such the next generation of her family are denied; and in this way Lynn is faced with a new form of sex discrimination. While her effort challenging the Indian Act was arduous enough, Lynn is also an outspoken critic of Canada's land claims and self-government process that forces Indigenous Nations to extinguish or relinquish their land, water, and resource rights. Lynn argues this is cultural genocide which is a more dubious and insidious form of genocide in that all Canadians are complicit even though consciously they are unaware what Canada is doing. https://www.facebook.com/events/173600113202472/