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The Gehl Numbers: Bill S-3, an Act to Amend the Indian Act

12/4/2017

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Ontario Court of Appeal Photo Credit Lynn Gehl

While many people are aware of the newly entitled registrants resulting from the Stéphane Descheneaux 2015 court victory, few people are aware of the newly entitled registrants resulting from Lynn Gehl's court victory challenging Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's unknown and unstated paternity policy.
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Through Bill S3, An Act to Amend the Indian Act (the elimination of sex-based discrimination), the Descheneaux remedy will result in as many as 35,000 new registrants; this is an estimated finite number. The Gehl remedy, though, will result in as many as 100,000 new registrants with no finite number, as the policy remedy applies to all situations where the father is unknown.
Read more here: http://rabble.ca/news/2017/12/gehl-numbers-bill-s-3-act-amend-indian-act

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​​Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. In 2017 she won an Ontario Court of Appeal case on sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Algonquin land claims process. Recently she published Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit.  You can reach her through, and see more of her work, at www.lynngehl.com

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Hans Mayr
12/13/2017 12:52:21 pm

Congratulation dear Ph.D. Lynn Gehl !
This is tremendous work you do for the Native mothers in particular and for the Native people indeed !

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