An ELLT treaty with Canada's indigenous peoples on reserve?

[Machjo]

Would an ELLT (Education, Language, Labour, and Trade) treaty benefit Canada's indigenous peoples economically and culturally?

Essentially, the idea would be that, aside from the requirement to conform to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no First Nation would be required to conform to any Canadian constitutional, legal, or other education, language, labour, or trade policy. Beyond that, it would be free to negotiate educational cooperation, common trades and professional education standards, free trade, and common labour market agreements of its own with any state in the world and the Canadian government would respect it. It would also be free to adopt the language policy of its choice not only on reserves, but also in any international language agreements, whether it requires partner states to recognize international business contracts in any particular language as legal or any other such policy.

What would be your thoughts on something like this so as to reduce constraints to indigenous cultural and economic development?

 

[gerryh]

Would an ELLT (Education, Language, Labour, and Trade) treaty benefit Canada's indigenous peoples economically and culturally?

Essentially, the idea would be that, aside from the requirement to conform to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no First Nation would be required to conform to any Canadian constitutional, legal, or other education, language, labour, or trade policy. Beyond that, it would be free to negotiate educational cooperation, common trades and professional education standards, free trade, and common labour market agreements of its own with any state in the world and the Canadian government would respect it. It would also be free to adopt the language policy of its choice not only on reserves, but also in any international language agreements, whether it requires partner states to recognize international business contracts in any particular language as legal or any other such policy.

What would be your thoughts on something like this so as to reduce constraints to indigenous cultural and economic development?

I thought they were "independent nations". No need to "negotiate" sweet pi$$ all anymore. They can take care of it all themselves.

 

[Machjo]

I thought they were "independent nations". No need to "negotiate" sweet pi$$ all anymore. They can take care of it all themselves.

They might in principle. Are you saying they do in practice?

 

[gerryh]

They might in principle. Are you saying they do in practice?

That's what THEY keep saying. I say let em have it in reality. Fu ckers can starve or grow fat on their own.

 

[Machjo]

That's what THEY keep saying. I say let em have it in reality. Fu ckers can starve or grow fat on their own.

Ah the love that reverberates through those words. I was thinking of this as a way to remove obstacles to their development, and you interpret it as an excuse to through them under the bus... if I understood you correctly.

Given Canadians' prejudices against First Nations, maybe negotiating an ELLT treaty would be their best bet so as to allow them to fend for themselves on the world stage. My concern is that even if the government ever agreed to this, it would just find some other way to try to undermine their development.

 

[gerryh]

Ah the love that reverberates through those words. I was thinking of this as a way to remove obstacles to their development, and you interpret it as an excuse to through them under the bus... if I understood you correctly.

Given Canadians' prejudices against First Nations, maybe negotiating an ELLT treaty would be their best bet so as to allow them to fend for themselves on the world stage. My concern is that even if the government ever agreed to this, it would just find some other way to try to undermine their development.

Canadians prejudices against First Nations? ROFLMFAO that is rich. How about their prejudices against the ROC? Why the fu ck should I give 2 fu cks about what they do or want in their "nation"? They didn't give 2 shytes about my Great Grandmother and her daughter when they kicked them to the side for the absolutely horrible crime of my Great Grandmother falling in love with "whitey". So, they want to be "nations", then they take the responsibility of teaching their own "people".