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Originally Posted by polak
Anyone that thinks segregation is the answer really needs to stop playing the "race" and guilt card and look at the situation as it is.
We live in a BETTER then 1st world country, a country that is routinely ranked as one of the best places to live in the entire world but we have pockets of people living in levels of impoverishment that are bad even for a 3rd world country and these people are being led by a select few who have historically been some of the most corrupt "politicians" in the world.
Throwing money at people who have no resources or abilities to do anything with it beside frivolously spending it, isn't going to fix anything. It's been done. There are countless initiatives that try and "educate" or provide them with the tools to be healthy and safe and NONE of these have had any effect. There is no alternative. Nothing. Not one viable solution that exists for these people besides the removal of this backwards 1800's B.S. system.
Is it unfair for them to lose exclusive access to this land? Yes.
Is it going to be easy to do this? Not a chance.
But, without doing so, nothing will change.
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Forcing natives to assimilate with the rest of Canada because the living conditions are considered better is like a asking a woman to move back in with her repeatedly abusive husband because his house is much nicer than the women's shelter and he promises not to smack her around anymore.