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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
This is how I see it going forward. Parliament passes a motion to repeal the Indian Act, they go to the leaders of representative tribal councils, and leave it to them to draft how this is going to happen. It would be very difficult to get an agreement everyone can be satisfied with, but that's democracy. The tribal councils present the plan, parliament then approves the plan that was drafted and passed by the first nations people of Canada.
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I have a hard time believing any tribal council will actually work out a plan that will break down and disband the reserve system.
My guess is they just ask for more money. Ultimately no matter which way you look at it, any kind of solution will involve hard decisions for a lot of Native people. Whether it is a decision for the chiefs to quit sucking money off the taxpayer without helping their own reserve, or the people of the reserve to put in some effort to do better. Most of the Natives I've met have a very extreme 'the government owes us' opinion, and as a result I don't see that changing at all for generations.
Sadly, that is the price we have to pay, and the taxpayer will have to cough up a lot of money to help them integrate back into society. We should say thanks to the government who signed the stupid Indian Act for screwing not only us over now, but generations upon generations of Native people.