Following the courageous journey undertaken by Peace and
Friendship walkers from Listuguj to Ottawa, Solidarity Halifax
would like to re-iterate its commitment of solidarity toward
acts of resistance and protest of the colonial and oppressive
relationship between the Canadian state and the Indigenous
peoples of this land. Since the emergence of the Idle No More
movement, the Canadian government has shown no sign of departure
from its attitude of paternalism and arrogance, and has rather
chosen to pursue in this course through its last budget
announcement where communities are held at ransom and youth
forced to submit to the capitalist extractive industries that
undermine the health of their lands and their rights of
sovereignty to them. Solidarity Halifax sends their
congratulations and best wishes of peace and friendship to those
who have undertaken the walk.