It sure must be nice to be an Indian in Canada these days. An Indian can go buy just about anything they want to buy from any business outfit on white boys land and not have to pay any taxes on what they buy. On top of that those Indians get a government check every month for doing sweet phuk all from this taxpaying white boy. The white folk are now owned by Indians as they cannot do anything without their permission. Old whitey is now the victim's in this Indian country. Just saying.
If you had a Treaty Status card in Canada, you’d be sadly disappointed.
The whole system is quite corrupt with respect to educational funding (you’d best belong to the correct political family to get funding, and hope that relative stays in office until you’ve graduated) for example.
At one time, for a time, if you lived on a reserve, & had whatever it was you where shopping for (furniture, car, etc…) delivered to the Rez… you could avoid both taxes (at least in Saskatchewan), but if something was purchased off reserve and not deliver to a reserve and you presented your treaty card you
might avoid one of the two taxes…(The provincial one) Depending on what it was that you were buying.
Many of those loopholes are gone now as the decades slide by. As far as the monthly check for being a native, depending on where you are it might be an annual or biannual check, and if you save those checks for several years you can buy dinner for your family once. Seriously….
This may be different in other provinces but out here I’ve heard lots of talk of the five dollar checks, and people line up to get them so that they say they’ve gotten them. It’s more of a social gathering and inside joke than anything regarding financial gain. Many don’t even cash them & some frame them and hang them on the wall.