Action Area 3: Infrastructure and Service Delivery
Focus Area B: Systemic Discrimination
Promote and support efforts to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and other colonialist concepts such as terra nullius.
The main identified progress on this Call for Change is the City of St. John’s renaming the “June holiday”, formerly called “Discovery Day”, to “National Indigenous Peoples Day (observed)”. See Call for Change 20 for more details.
For First Light:
- Expand content in the Indigenous Cultural Diversity Training program that relates to this Call for Change.
Action Area 3: Infrastructure and Service Delivery
We envision a city that reflects the histories and cultures of the Indigenous Peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador and one where members of the urban Indigenous community are able to access essential services free of discrimination. To realize this vision, we call on all residents of St. John’s to help advance change in the following ways: