Warren Mirko: Indigenous ways of knowing? You wouldn’t understand – National Post

Mar 24, 2026

Through UNDRIP, Canada endorses “Indigenous Knowledge” as inherited and rooted in ancestral relationships to the land

Canada is rapidly abandoning a principle that has shaped western democracies since the Enlightenment: the idea that no person or group has privileged access to sacred or divine knowledge unavailable to everyone else.

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Now, this principle is being threatened by Canada’s increasing embrace of “Indigenous Knowledge”— whereby knowledge is treated as collectively owned and restricted by ancestry rather than something open to examination and shared across society.

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