Here's what a PM that's NOT racist looks like

[mentalfloss]

Take notes helmet heads.


Trudeau lays out plan for new relationship with indigenous people

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out his plan to reset Canada's relationship with its indigenous people during his address to a group of First Nations leaders in Gatineau, Que.

"It is time for a renewed, nation-to-nation relationship with First Nations peoples, one that understands that the constitutionally guaranteed rights of First Nations in Canada are not an inconvenience but rather a sacred obligation," said Trudeau to loud applause from First Nations chiefs this morning.

Hundreds of chiefs and other First Nations delegates are meeting at an annual three-day gathering organized by the Assembly of First Nations.

The prime minister said his government would immediately move to act on several of the promises his party made during the election campaign, including a process to launch a national public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women which he said was "already underway."

"We have made this inquiry a priority for our government because those touched by this national tragedy have waited long enough," said Trudeau. "The victims deserve justice, their families an opportunity to be heard and to heal."

Trudeau lays out plan for new relationship with indigenous people - Politics - CBC News

 

[Durry]

He's a typical Liberal.

All talk, big show and big spending and lotsa debt but never any results.

Nothing new here!!

 

[Cannuck]

It would be great if we actually treated them like nations.

 

[Machjo]

It would be great if we actually treated them like nations.

Knowing what we know of English and French imperialism, we should be thankful they weren't wiped off the face of the earth long ago and that residential schools were the worse of it. I'm surprised Canada even apologized.

As an aside, I don't know about Trudeau, but I do know at least one Liberal MP who had little understanding of the importance of promoting indigenous cultural freedom. So much will depend not just on Trudeau himself, but on the composition of Parliament.

 

[Cannuck]

Wh did the French or the English wipe out?

 

[Machjo]

Wh did the French or the English wipe out?

A few indigenous peoples did become extinct. The British were likewise known for handing tuberculosis-infested blankets to indigenus people with the express intent of killing.

 

[JLM]

Take notes helmet heads.


Trudeau lays out plan for new relationship with indigenous people

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out his plan to reset Canada's relationship with its indigenous people during his address to a group of First Nations leaders in Gatineau, Que.


Trudeau lays out plan for new relationship with indigenous people - Politics - CBC News

I definitely agree with further investigation as long as there are unanswered questions and missing people, but I am wondering how many answers our $40 million is going to buy.

 

[skookumchuck]

The RCMP have already told the government long ago that only a small number died along the highway, most were in or on the reserves and their own people are responsible for most of the deaths. I do not have much to do with the natives in my family anymore but if i could take you on a little trip to the reserve for a week or so, you would have a very different attitude about natives when you came back, that i guarantee.
I got totally sick of hearing someone screaming, then someone called the RCMP, next thing i would hear is "get off our land Cops!"
There were wrong things done to many different peoples in this country, not just natives. Let it fuking go, we cannot afford this political bullchit and we do not need to ruin more natives with money for nothing.
Nothing said about the Chief's salaries lately eh?

 

[Jinentonix]

Knowing what we know of English and French imperialism, we should be thankful they weren't wiped off the face of the earth long ago and that residential schools were the worse of it. I'm surprised Canada even apologized.

Have you been told yet today, hater? What you know of the English and French would fit on the head of a pin. The residential schools were actually modeled off the orphanage system in Britain. Although I'm not sure if the victims of the residential schools were ever shipped off as free farm labour to the local farms. But abuse, both physical and emotional, was no different between a British orphanage and a Canadian residential school.
The major difference between the two was one tried to remove the Native culture from the Native peoples and the other pretty much guaranteed your status in the British caste system to be the lowest of the low.


As for the OP, what a steaming pile of crapola. The Liberal party's history with the FN isn't exactly something to brag about. The simple fact is, immigrants and refugees will receive far more attention and financial help than the Native peoples will because every single federal party since Mulroney's PCs panders to the immigrant vote. Some more openly than others.

 

[Blackleaf]

Knowing what we know of English and French imperialism, we should be thankful they weren't wiped off the face of the earth long ago and that residential schools were the worse of it. I'm surprised Canada even apologized.

As an aside, I don't know about Trudeau, but I do know at least one Liberal MP who had little understanding of the importance of promoting indigenous cultural freedom. So much will depend not just on Trudeau himself, but on the composition of Parliament.

As I keep saying, if it weren't for French and British imperialism Canada wouldn't exist today.

 

[Machjo]

As I keep saying, if it weren't for French and British imperialism Canada wouldn't exist today.

Maybewe'd have a superior North American multinational federation today.

 

[Curious Cdn]

The Liberals have been in power for most of our history since Confederation so an awful lot of the bad stuff that we see in our country is a result of their creation or neglect.

 

[Machjo]

The Liberals have been in power for most of our history since Confederation so an awful lot of the bad stuff that we see in our country is a result of their creation or neglect.

I totally agree with your statement.

 

[mentalfloss]

 

[Cannuck]

A few indigenous peoples did become extinct.

Who?

 

[Danbones]

well, with about only 20 percent of the indian money actually gets to the indians
so prolly any increases won't make it down the pipe

cronies are NOT a race
except to the bank


exstinkt indians?
they say about 250 MILLION were exstinkted before their natural time since colombus
boy, god that gives out real estate is goode

 

[taxslave]

It would be great if we actually treated them like nations.

They are not nations. They should have exactly the same rights as any other Canadian. No more no less.

IF trudOwe is prepared to give natives any more rights than the rest of the population has then he is indeed a racist.

 

[Cannuck]

They are not nations. They should have exactly the same rights as any other Canadian. No more no less.

I don't care if they are nations or not and it should be up to them to decide if they want to be (just like its up to Kweebeck to decide its own future). My issue is with the silliness of being a quasi-nation accepting or demanding all the benefits of nationhood without the responsibilities. The aboriginals are like teenagers that won't look after themselves yet complain about what's put on the dinner table for them.

 

[mentalfloss]

That's an unfair characterization Cannuck.

 

[captain morgan]