By Jeremy Appel Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Vatican’s announcement in March that it’s repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery that was used to justify colonialism and plunder for centuries led to questions about what that decision means in practice.   According to Tamara Baldhead Pearl, a University of Alberta law professor from the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan, the Vatican’s repudiation of the doctrine could be an important first step in eliminating “white supremacy in Canadian case law.”   “The greater the consensus that the Doctrine of Discovery is fundamentally racist and immoral, the harder it is for Canadian courts to continue to decide cases based on this fundamental doctrine,” Pearl told the CBC Radio program Day 6.   She added that hopefully judges will “try to rethink how

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