As Canada marks Truth and Reconciliation Week, there will be many meaningful conversations about ways we can each engage with and support reconciliation. However, one issue that doesn’t get enough attention is how transportation continues to be a serious challenge for Indigenous communities.

Transport development physically paved the way for colonization, and is directly linked to the chronic and extreme social inequities Indigenous communities experience. Today in The Conversation Canada Jaimy Fischer from the University of Toronto writes about the transportation inequalities Indigenous people continue to face and what governments and experts can do to address them.

“Governments and professionals must actively listen to Indigenous experiences and recognize how Indigenous people are already filling the gaps,” she writes. “In doing so, we can broaden our collective perspective on transportation equity, align it with the principles of reconciliation and respond to longstanding calls for justice for Indigenous Peoples.”

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Ibrahim Daair

Culture + Society Editor
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