TRANSLATION DA. The perm’s “pretense of benign translation” between knowledge systems is a veneer for colonial extraction. The alt is incommensurable with the aff.

No easy trans-systemic transferability or compatibility exists between Aboriginal peoples' rights and Canadian intellectual property rights. The perceived incommensurability arises in the intersection of Euro-Canadian and Indigenous knowledge systems. Euro-Canadian assumptions, categories, and justifications are not commensurable with Indigenous peoples' knowledge systems. European Enlightenment created these assumptions to classify humanity's stages, racism, and colonial identification of non-Europeans. The purpose of Canadian intellectual property laws is to secure economic returns for an individual creative, productive, and innovative process that is not always compatible with most Indigenous peoples' objectives. When the Canadian intellectual property laws and its categories extended to Indigenous peoples' knowledge, it often regenerated cultural appropriation issues.

A pretense of benign translation has mediated the contemporary concern of Indigenous peoples' knowledge with Canadian knowledge. Eurocentric disciplinary knowledges have attempted to translate Indigenous knowledge into their frameworks. Such adaptations or incorporations are often not compatible, as the translation requires foundational transformations in how knowledge is understood and how it is shared. The superiority of Eurocentric knowledge is presumed in most translations. That questionable presumption sheers off the complexity, interconnection, and intelligibility of Indigenous peoples' knowledge systems to render them legible. The Canadian knowledge systems' historical construction has generated many negative stereotypes. Thus, Indigenous peoples have rejected these past translations and transformations.