Making sure indigenous children have good health care, education, job training, recreation programs, mental health programs is not throwing money away. It is an investment that will pay dividends for us all. Surely we can provide a good housing, clean water, good social programs and an equal opportunity to succeed. So far we have failed.
But I know I am not going to convince many of you to change your mind because you have already decided that first nations are responsible for all their own problems! LOL
But that is not a surprise coming from mostly white conservative minded voters who see first nations as an enemy or a liability and are mostly interested in self serving tax cuts and taking care of their own.
I have a solution, give first nations a share in the resource revenue from their ancestral lands. Since they handed over a lot of their traditional lands for small uneconomic reserves and a racist indian act and were subjected to cultural genocide, residential school and other abuses, let them have self government and fund their own lives based on resource revenue. The reserves that have some resource revenue often have much better standards of living, surprise surprise.
How would you feel if immigrants came into your country, took over control and divided up your traditional lands with little compensation? Well that's what happened when Europeans arrived in most of the Americas.
So what happened to the property rights of first nations? Apparently they don't matter! Property rights only matter when you are white and of European ancestry! LOL
Let the mud flinging begin! Have a great day!
But I know I am not going to convince many of you to change your mind because you have already decided that first nations are responsible for all their own problems! LOL
But that is not a surprise coming from mostly white conservative minded voters who see first nations as an enemy or a liability and are mostly interested in self serving tax cuts and taking care of their own.
I have a solution, give first nations a share in the resource revenue from their ancestral lands. Since they handed over a lot of their traditional lands for small uneconomic reserves and a racist indian act and were subjected to cultural genocide, residential school and other abuses, let them have self government and fund their own lives based on resource revenue. The reserves that have some resource revenue often have much better standards of living, surprise surprise.
How would you feel if immigrants came into your country, took over control and divided up your traditional lands with little compensation? Well that's what happened when Europeans arrived in most of the Americas.
So what happened to the property rights of first nations? Apparently they don't matter! Property rights only matter when you are white and of European ancestry! LOL
Let the mud flinging begin! Have a great day!
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