Top dentists make $1 million on reserves

Quote: Originally Posted by CDNBear

It's called collective bargaining. The Crown got land, we got "special status and rights".

I'm not guaranteed anything a unionized worker gets via collective bargaining. I'm not guaranteed employment in a union shop. In fact, union members, are given preferential treatment to fill union shop jobs. Legally.

It is illegal to give preferential treatment based on race.

Irrelevant. The overwhelming majority of Canadians, do not have the right.

Incorrect. That entitlement, by contract, isn't based on Canadian citizenship.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

Which brings us back to whether Canada is still owned and ruled by the crown. Most say it isn't since independence was incorporated into the constitution in 1982. This means your deal is over since the crown cannot enforce its deal upon the separate sovereign nation of Canada.

This is the contract that is null & void since one of the parties to it no longer exists here.

Comparing the hiring practices of a unionized shop to the issue of native claims is not quite right.

That's why so many qualified white folk work in the band offices instead of all those untrained indians.

Actually the overwhelming majority of Canadians have been duped into believing they don't have the right by those that want to retain power over us.

Quote: Originally Posted by CDNBear

If only that were true. First, the Constitution of 1867, then the Indian Act and then the Charter, even if we were to ignore the fact that Canada is a Commonwealth Nation and not a republic. Canada has always, for some strange reason, acknowledged the duty to Crown treaties.

Hiring practices was hardly the gist of my comment.

So you keep saying. I await your presence on the evening news.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

You see that is the big debate, I want to claim we are still ruled by the crown so as to invoke the Magna Carta in claiming what I believe are my rights but if you talk to any government official whether elected or bureaucrat they will tell you we are completely independent and the crown has no actual legal standing.

Sorry if I misunderstood your comparison.