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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
Remind me never to sign a contract with you. The idea that you should rip up a contract between us because you decided it would be better for me in the long run is pretty appalling.
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Open your eyes man. The idea of a contract is binding regardless of the damage it's doing 200 years later is a romantic notion but the fact is these treaties are destroying a race of people whether they or we want to admit it.
I grew up in Northern Sask with reserves all around us. I had over 1000+ hours on the RCMP ride along and we spent 90% of our time on the reserves. Here I saw first hand the abuse, poverty, and corruption that effected every person out there.
I also worked at a Uranium mine where a certain % of employees had to be Native. These were Indian people whose families did not have treaty rights and there I got to know some of the hardest working, proud people you could ever meet.
These treaties are bad - period.