PARENTAL RIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ✨
We acknowledge that we gather today on the traditional, unceded, and sovereign territory of Parental Authority. The foundational domain of mothers and fathers who have raised, protected, and guided their children since time immemorial.
We recognize that on this land and in every land, the home, the family, the sacred bond between parent and child was never surrendered. It was not ceded through social contract, negotiated by treaty, directed by school board policy, nor legal decree.
We honour the enduring stewardship of parents as the primary guardians, decision-makers, and permanent, life-long, and loving authorities in their children’s lives.
We acknowledge the historical and ongoing dispossession of parental rights through policies that treat families as obstacles rather than the cornerstone of child rearing.
We commit to truth telling: that no bureaucrat, no government, nor any school has the moral or natural right to supplant the parent.
We honour the resilience of families who continue to assert their inherent rights despite the malicious and nefarious attempts at censorship and erasure.
We stand in solidarity with the fundamental truth that children belong first to their parents.
This acknowledgement is made with the understanding that true reconciliation requires restoring parental sovereignty; the oldest and most natural right of all.