Question 25 of 33

Which of these statements is true?

All Aboriginal people in Canada are governed by the Indian Act.
There once existed a policy aimed at the gradual extinction of the Aboriginal population in Canada.
At the creation of the Canadian Confederation in 1867, Aboriginal peoples expressed their disagreement with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.

The plan to progressively extinguish the First Nations population of Canada was developed between 1840 and 1867 and was driven by cost reduction objectives. Government authorities would endeavour [TRANSLATION] “to acquire the powers necessary to accelerate Indian territorial dispossession and to decrease the number of Indians by way of assimilation into the white man’s way of life”.

To learn more:

Assimilation: Not a Hidden Objective
From Protection to Coercion