Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

Author Bruce McIvor
Publisher Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.