RE: Should the government keep giving money to the First Peo
Canada is not doing enough to help stop the deterioration of the Aboriginal way of life. We cannot just "negotiate" a new deal, settle and walk away. We have helped create serious problems in the native way of life, not least of which is the substance abuse. Alcoholism, glue sniffing etc must be seriously tackled for the sake of the future of the Native population. The government should be building proper housing for them- look at how they cant even have clean water on some of their reservations. We shove them onto reservations and take away their livelihood and then want them to shut up and die. And sadly, that is just what they are doing. They have a high suicide rate as well.
I agree with the idea that the land has to be shared, just as we share the land with new immigrants coming to Canada. But settling land claims is now only one part of our responsibility. We have to help rectify the results of our past abuses of the population.
Canada is not doing enough to help stop the deterioration of the Aboriginal way of life. We cannot just "negotiate" a new deal, settle and walk away. We have helped create serious problems in the native way of life, not least of which is the substance abuse. Alcoholism, glue sniffing etc must be seriously tackled for the sake of the future of the Native population. The government should be building proper housing for them- look at how they cant even have clean water on some of their reservations. We shove them onto reservations and take away their livelihood and then want them to shut up and die. And sadly, that is just what they are doing. They have a high suicide rate as well.
I agree with the idea that the land has to be shared, just as we share the land with new immigrants coming to Canada. But settling land claims is now only one part of our responsibility. We have to help rectify the results of our past abuses of the population.