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| | NEWS aboriginal rights |
 | | (Kamloops, Shuswap Territory/March 2, 2000) B.C. Lieutenant Governor, Garde Gardom, deliberately insulted First Nations Summit leaders this week, while they sat in the front row during the Cabinet Swearing in Ceremony in Victoria. |
 | | Lieutenant Governor Gardom and Premier Dosanjh on the swearing in of the "new" Cabinet have already disregarded one of the first recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples which is, in part, as follows: |
 | | In my opinion, Premier Dosanjh's silence about Garde Gardom's comments speaks volumes, it means the racist, colonial doctrine of discovery is alive and well in the Dosanjh government, and they intend to ‘justify infringing' Aboriginal title using the doctrine. |
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