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G West
4 years ago
Nothing much 'mixed' about this
Harper and his 'brains' trust have been determined to follow a particular tack on native issues for years.
This is from a 2006 CBC report about Harper adviser and former chief of staff Tom Flanagan:
Naturally, a man who believes this wouldn't support the 'idea' of rights for indigenous people would he?
In fact, Harper, like Flanagan, just wants native people to disappear as an entity with either power, influence, or moral suasion.
Not much of a mystery at all - but in fact perfectly in keeping with the PM's master plan. Oh, and by ‘liberal market economy’ what Flanagan really means is ‘neo-liberal’ or, if you prefer – neo conservative.
hova87
4 years ago
Racism in its own
I know people who've gone to residential school and i know what has been done to them. many of them are getting low-balled with $8,000 or $9,000 settlements for things that they've been fighting against for as much as 70 years for some of them.
Then on the news this small group of asian people who were held at a camp for a very short time period each get millions of dollars.
How does that even compare?
All governments need to start stepping up their game if they want to have a smooth "New Relationship" with First Nations.
DPL
4 years ago
Hova87 says asian
Hova87 says asian people(actually most were born in this country) being held in camps each get millions of dollars.
I know some folks who lost their homes, their boats, their farms and ended up in the Slocan valley for a number of years.
The numbers you use are way beyond belief.
All parties have worked for a long time to resolve Residential school students issues. Ex Judge Ted Hughes , whos reputation is beyond reproach works that file.
I head more than one Indian chief or negotiator state thet their particular family spent time there and saw no abuse.
The previous government had RCMP members chasing the cases and many were dropped.
Lots of preople before Harper and Flanigan wanted to see the end of reserves. There are some pretty good reasons. How do a number of families located on a few square miles expect to set up enough businesses to support themselves? How can a group as small as 50 or so people set up a government syste. the costs woud be massive. The statistics show that many bands have more people living off than on reserves for a number of reasons. Locally we have six bands, all have a lot of non indians living on the reserves, Non Indian companies operate out of the reserves. Yet the bands complain they don't have enough land for their members. Many of the leases between bands and occupiers are not legal as DIAND who controls the land, did not set up the leases. I am no Conservative nor am I a University professor, but I lived in such a development for almost ten years. We too were subject to sections of the Indian Act. We paid property taxes to bands for land we didn't own, bands that don't collect such taxes from their own members. I believe it was the Trudeau government that wanted assimilation. Right now the Conservative government wants to change a section that would give Indian women rights under the Human Rights Act.
It's not going to pass as some indian leaders are very much against any changes that might affect their individual powers.
As long as the Indain Act as presently writtne exists, this whole mess will not get resolution.
Modern treaties can sort out most of the mess, but they are long in coming. The reality of such delays is not very pretty, but neither are some of the slanted stories folks write.