And I still stand behind them in relation to you and 'kool-aid'.
Let's give up the attempt at putting in cute word for the bore basic word that cannot be mistaken for anything else. drinking 'kool-aid' means accepting a lie for the truth. Nothing more, nothing less. Knowledge can be gotten in two ways, from personal observation and from 3rd hand accounts or the 'opinions' of others.
That brings us to your being in the far north in person and the knowledge that you gained disrupted what you had previously held as being 'the facts'. Without taking that any further the 'facts' you had before getting there were flawed to put it in it's most basic form and that makes it a lie, accidental or intentional doesn't matter. That is the topic that you are denying, that you can be told a lie and will take it for the truth. That could well be the same today and the part later in this post will put you to the test as to how 'kool-aid' free you are at the moment.
That would seem in indicate you have corrected all the 'opinions' you had that were in error. You have to admit that 'believed a lie' is the same as drinking kool-aid before you can deal with if you have drank in the past and are still drinking the same stuff today.
Let's see if that openness can be put to the test based on real world events and the standards we have for ourselves and how that compares to FN people over the last 100 years and today is no different. The situation will be in the next part of this post. (dodging the issue is a sign that you are under the effects of some 'lie', in this case an intentional lie.
He just might be, so might you based on your conclusions to this recent event in the 'far north' and involving FN people.
There was a thread on here a within the last year about a Provincial Prison on Baffin Island and how it was the 'most decrepit' prison in Canada as far as living conditions are concerned. In the article that the thread was based on it was admitted that the place was below housing standards across Canada as far as Public Heath was concerned. The behavioural problems at the prison were also noted and the 'excessive anger' was attributed to overcrowding and the housing standards were not indicated as contributing to any behavioural changes.
At this point kool-aid is being handed out as you are being taken in one direction only and 'overcrowding' in other prisons has never been 'linked' to excessive aggression.
Now add in some info that shows the dangers of those specific contaminants over the short and long term and the fact that for the previous 20 years (or whatever date it was) of substandard living conditions went hand in hand with numerous 'studies' but the elimination of those hazards was never followed up on. That not only opens up the possibility that the living conditions were substandard on purpose and the effects on the prison population were known and monitored closely to observe the effects of exposure to what is called a 'toxin' in the rest of Canada. That points to intentional experimentation of the inmates, not any different than the FN that were in the Residential Schools that were 'experimented on' as a human guinea pig, no other way to put it when those parameters are added to the 'breaking news'.
Your post didn't cover that part of the north's way of 'educating the local population.
It is a lie to say you have never accepted a lie as a fact when your previous posts show that going to the far north was 'eye opener', Those two facts is what my comment was based on. Taking it further involves the prison issue as I think you are both under the effects of some 'lies' and you may not be seeing the truth of the situation and what our level of caring is actually at.
Sport?? lol, okay oh wise and wonderful one.
My example would suggest we take it as far back as 1867 to examine the guidelines about how the FN people were to be treated. I'm quite sure if the refugees were given a full course in how we can treat people they would be less anxious to move here as they are only 1 level above Reservation status.
Rivers would make more sense and even then ice instead of water would be the most convenient but for moving cargo barges like they have on the Mississippi would be needed and the season is short. The good news is Yellowknife be where the roads end when the frost is gone. The muskeg also means any permanent construction should be done on the rocky ridges that are around or you would have to use the lakes and float in the summer and rest on the ice in the winter. Modern containers would make either quite easy to do either.
Let's stay with the ones who decides what cargo is sent up and what options are left off the table. Do the residents get a Sears Mail order book to look at?
It means they need 21st century technology rather tan getting what we consider to be obsolete. 3v indoor lighting and solar garden path markers are probably not on any shipping list yet it could light up any size village with a system that is portable and easy to maintain and has zero impact in the environment.
A bigger issue is you can't be 'taken care of' and own a business at the same time if you are a FN person. Syrian rebel would be a different form and it would be fast-tracked in implementation.
A laptop with Sat internet would fix that up if somebody was to set the Elders up with one that does language translation and all places or interests are only a few clicks away and basic surfing is a 1hr course. How to fix a jerky mouse is something that comes after that.
Maybe we shouldn't be trying to make them in our image. Move them into the next century and use them as BETA testers for the low recourse user. The 21st century dog sleigh is a fold-out and comes with its own power supply. Ski-do that works for extended travel in the winter that is also a bear proof shelter.
It is the intentional conditions that need to be addresses, so far the bury it is holding the winning hand.
