Canada’s race problem? It’s even worse than America’s.
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Dissolve the reservations, eliminate all Indian programs, and get on with it.
That's speaking for the U.S. What Canada does is Canada's business.
That's speaking for the U.S. What Canada does is Canada's business.
It's not just the left. CB identifies himself as right of centre and the self loathing is quite evident.
Maybe you need to stop paying attention to "studies" and "polls" without knowing the methodology being implemented, they are highly deceptive infused by ideological slants.
The OP reference is Just another article written by a whitey, who just knows what Injuns need, like whitey has been doing for a few hundred years and leftards fall all over themselves nodding in assent and self flagellating in the process because it's the politically correct thing to do!!!
They fall for the "Keepers of the Earth" and hiyyiyis from drummers in the park downtown as a view of injuns.
The work ethic is lost progressively with each successive generation of the illegals' progeny.
... And of course, you are the Supreme Chief that assess what is a smart question and what qualifies as stupid (read: inconvenient) questions.
... I see that you think quite highly of yourself
Nice... Corruption within the tribal communities is justifiable because Cliffy wants to desperately believe that the same exists in gvt.
So called Democracy?... Grow up already man, you're too old for all this tin-foil hat bull sh*t
I hope that the current generation does exactly that... Their communities will be all the better for it as well as the non-FN communities
There ya go again thumping your 'power to the people' drum.
FYI - Your socialist utopia can't exist without capitalism there champ... You'd do well to understand this prior to stoking the fires of the young folks about disallowing resource development until they are properly bribed.. There is always an alternative and when that door of opportunity closes, the money mysteriously vanishes and we all know that cash is a vital component of your utopic blue prints
Absolutely.. Canada and especially the FN individuals/families would do well if the current system was dissolved and the land was transferred directly to those individuals & families, bypassing the Tribal Council or held as a community asset.
Gvt waste and stupidity would be eliminated and equally as important, the tribal graft, corruption and misappropriation of funds would be dealt with simultaneously.
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Exactly.
Now that natives are used to getting government money, they have lost their drive to survive on their own.
We build them houses with that money, & they rip out the studs to burn during winter to heat the house.
Then we give them money again the next year to build the same house.
At one pointe you have to put you're foot down and say enough.
the squirrels don't need government money to survive and we invade their fu€king land every day.
And replaced with non-tribal graft, corruption and misappropriation of funds.
No matter. We need to stand on our own feet, with neither fear nor favour. I've long said that if Indians want to, (again, I mean in the U.S.) we can participate in the electoral process in towns and counties. If we win, we can make Indian-friendly laws within the general Federal and state laws. And what we have will be ours. We won't be hanging on a government that has betrayed us over and over again.
Or if we choose, we can leave the majority-Indian communities and make our way in the big, bad world. And be badder than anybody else.
Cannuck will be happy to know you're turning into a feminist bleeding hart just like him.
Sadly, this is a reality that is (likely) unavoidable.
That said, with the use of informed 3rd parties (indian or non-indian), the negative effects can be mitigated with reasonable effictiveness
As you are surely aware, gvt doesn't discriminate against any one culture in terms of betrayal... They lie, steal and harangue all groups equally, albeit, in different forms
Read up on Chief Clarence Louie and his group in Osoyoos, BC. They have risen to the challenge and are leading the pack today
How a B.C. native band went from poverty to prosperity - The Globe and Mail
This is not the only example in Canada, and no doubt there are numerous examples of this throughout the USA.
The point is that these accomplishments are very possible and the benefits to the communities at large, both FN and non-FN are very tangible
Not the usual fare for Macleans, that article. If anyone has any solutions, I'm all ears.
An 11 year old First Nations girl recently died because she opted out of chemotherapy for some hippy-dippy Florida joint. Normally the government would have intervened--as they do for Jehovah Witness children, for example--and apprehended the child. However, in this case, the government respected the stated wishes of the child and the will of the community she was from.
Racist or not? There is no course of action that could be taken here that would not be deemed racist. Apprehend the child?--shades of residential schools. Let the child day?--"You would have saved her if she wasn't Indian."
A first Nation reserve near Vancouver throws mixed race couples off the reserve because they want to retain racial purity. Racist or not?
One reason why the racism word just muddies the water.
An 11 year old First Nations girl recently died because she opted out of chemotherapy for some hippy-dippy Florida joint. Normally the government would have intervened--as they do for Jehovah Witness children, for example--and apprehended the child. However, in this case, the government respected the stated wishes of the child and the will of the community she was from.
Racist or not? There is no course of action that could be taken here that would not be deemed racist. Apprehend the child?--shades of residential schools. Let the child day?--"You would have saved her if she wasn't Indian."
A first Nation reserve near Vancouver throws mixed race couples off the reserve because they want to retain racial purity. Racist or not?
One reason why the racism word just muddies the water.
But that only happens because real leaders combined with hard work made it happen.