It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day, and today in The Conversation Canada, we have a story on how first-generation immigrants to Canada are more supportive of Indigenous Peoples than non-immigrants, according to data from a survey conducted by the Environics Institute.

Andrew Parkin of the University of Toronto, along with Anna Triandafyllidou and Seyda Ece Aytac of Toronto Metropolitan University, explain that immigrants “might be more supportive of Indigenous Peoples because they could be more aware of the legacies of colonialism worldwide, more open to learn about their new country or more conscious of their responsibility as newcomers to learn Canadian history.”

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Lee-Anne Goodman

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