Number: Mps and People

number: Following the unprecedented mobilization of indigenous voters in 2015, there was a striking increase in the number of MPs, for a total of ten, according to Globe and Mail. But this may be close to the upper limit of what possible under our existing system, and it still less than three per cent of the total number of MPs, while indigenous people comprise at least 4.3 per cent of the population. Until the 2015 elections, there had been only 34 indigenous MPs in the entire history of Canada since Confederation, and only 15 indigenous senators. The under-representation of indigenous people in the federal Parliament is different from the under-representation of women, visible minorities, and other minorities. Living under separate laws could be justifiable in a decolonized nation-to-nation relationship, but we're far from realizing that aspiration. That because indigenous people occupy a unique position in our legal order: they're the only group that governed by laws that are different from the laws governing everyone else, beginning with the deeply colonial Indian Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.