Carey Price said it BEST:')
If you have not spent any time in a First Nations community and listened to their stories then you have NO RIGHT to pass judgement on them. Racism is TAUGHT, please be mindful of your "opinions" and think about how you came to your conclusions about our First Nations peoples. Canada was NOT discovered, it was invaded. I am sick of the ignorant stereotypes and lack of respect and empathy that many have for First Nations. Our history is based on lies and omits many truths from coast to coast. The Federal Government with no apologies or accountability for the wrong doings and pain another generation survived in Residential School, that is not something you simply "get over" - educate yourselves before taking the cop out road of ignorant stereotyping. The truth is that the recent past and current oppression is still effecting our First Nations and the road to healing is not going to happen overnight, but what CAN happen overnight is the way we all acknowledge the wrong doings, the way we listen to their stories in order to give them closure and help them heal, we all deserve to have a sense that we all matter and are all respected. The road forward is long and it is not easy but together we rise.
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Carey Price
POOR CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He simply does not see that there is NO situation that cannot be made worse by mixing drugs and alcohol into it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two third thirds of the native population live in cities and you dont hear much about them............................
they generally live quietly and peacefully!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And good for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is the other ONE THIRD......................................
who all live on reserves who get ALL the headlines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is smuggling cigarettes and screwing govt out of billions in taxes????????????
Natives on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who are the people going to jail in the largest numbers????????????????????????
People from reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who lives in the lowest quality housing- even worse than Toronto "affordable housing"?
People from reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And who got PAID to build those crumbling rat trap houses?????????????????????
People on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who has the highest rate of suicide in the country???????????????????????
People on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who has the highest rate of drug and alcohol addiction in the country?????????????????????
People on reserves??????????????????????????
Who has the countries lowest academic scores??????????????????????????
People on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who has the highest levels of unemployment in Canada????????????
People on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who gets routinely caught up in assorted spending scandals?????????????
Things like using housing money to pay for new cars and Carribean cruises?????????????
And trips to places like California for hockey teams and LOTS of supporters?????????????
As for the Atiwapiskat reserve and its missing $150 million dollars- in a town of 1500 people- that issue is beyond LOATHSOME!!!!!!!!!
And all this crap and corruption is perpetrated by people on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is time to admit that living on a reserve IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is bad mentally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it is bad physically!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it is past time to admit that the reserve system is BROKEN and needs to be ended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The reserve system is NOT COMPATIBLE with 20th century life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do know it is now the 21st century....................................
but that IS the point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reserve life has not caught up with the 20th century........................much less the 21st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is time for reserve inhabitants to admit that they are now their own worst enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to admit that white people are NOT to blame for the CURRENT mess on reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it is time to admit what I have said before:
That the best thing govt can do for the inhabitants of the perpetually FLOODED Kashechewan reserve is fly those people out...........
as govt DOES EVERY YEAR...................................................
take them to Thunder Bay as gvot does every year at a cost of about $20 million dollars for those 2500 people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THEN FORGET to ever fly them back to the Kashechewan PEST HOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Thunder Bay they will have access to better and cheaper food - meaning more fruit and vegetables so obesity and heart disease wont be so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They will have access to lower cost heat and light- no need to rely on costly diesel fueled generators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having access to that low cost hot water for bathing and for cleaning clothes will also give them a fighting chance to clean up some of the LOATHSOME skin rashes the kids were suffering from last spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There will be doctors and dentists and hospitals literally down the street in Thunder Bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No more costly air flights just to get a tooth fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in order for Kash natives to enjoy this improved life style and more healthy diet is tell them this:
Yes, we know Kash is a traditional camping ground of your people but it is NOT SUITABLE for people who want a 20th century life style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we will no longer aid and assist you in living that crappy, chaotic, drunken, drugged, unemployed life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You want to go back to Kash?
Fine.................
you want to live as your ancestors did.............................................
okay then..................................................
SO go BACK to Kash as your ancestors did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a canoe you made yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh- and welfare cheques WILL ONLY be issued in Thunder Bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Kash welfare office is PERMANENTLY CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Problem SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!