description actually contained in government legislation like the Evidence Act of British Columbia. This Act, revised in 1960 and still in effect, describes who is eligible to give evidence in a provincial court. Under Section 12, Chapter 134 of the Act, an aboriginal person or “native of mixed blood” is described as “an uncivilized person, destitute of the knowledge of God and of any fixed and clear belief in religion or in a future state of rewards and punishments …” Remarkably, this “modern” Canadian law declares, as did Columbus, that if you do not believe in a Christian God and a universe of heaven and hell, you are not civilized, and your word cannot be trusted in court. Like the Income Tax Act of Canada, which denies charitable tax exempt status to any organization which is “militantly anti-Christian”, such laws demonstrate the fallacy that church and state have ever been separate in Canada. The same twoheaded hydra of Crown and Pulpit has held Indians, and all citizens, in a semifeudal dependency for centuries.
Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present
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