By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor OTTAWA\u2014In the sterile fluorescence of a Senate committee room, where legislation usually trudges along at a bureaucrat\u2019s pace, history cracked open on November 17, and two women from Manitoulin\u2014one in the gallery, one waiting at home\u2014felt the ground shift beneath them. When senators voted ten to one to amend Bill S-2 and replace the second-generation cut-off with a one-parent rule for First Nations status, Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard did what any daughter raised in the long shadow of a half-century legal battle would do: she reached for her phone. The moment the amendments passed, she texted her mother, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell\u2014the same woman who, in 1971, dared to take the federal government to court after Canada erased her status… <\/p>\n
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor OTTAWA\u2014In the sterile fluorescence of a Senate committee room, where legislation usually trudges along at a bureaucrat\u2019s pace, history cracked open on November 17, and two women from Manitoulin\u2014one in the gallery, one waiting at home\u2014felt the ground shift beneath them. When senators voted ten to one to amend Bill S-2 and replace the second-generation cut-off with a one-parent rule for First Nations status, Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard did what any daughter raised in the long shadow of a half-century legal battle would do: she reached for her phone. The moment the amendments passed, she texted her mother, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell\u2014the same woman who, in 1971, dared to take the federal government to court after Canada erased her status... <\/p>\n