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Originally Posted by Slava
Well it does set a terrible precedent, there can be no denying that. I say that as someone who has already stated that they should meet in this thread! I'm having second thoughts on whether being forced into a meeting in these kinds of situations is a good idea though.
Now she won't eat until next week? So when does she plan on eating again, after the meeting? What if that meeting doesn't produce enough of a solution for her liking though? What if she is sated by this meeting (I doubt it) and others aren't?
At this point, there is just no winning for Harper, unfortunately. If he didn't meet with her and she dies then he has to deal with the obvious issues surrounding that. He meets with her, and faces the spectre of "it worked last time, so lets try again". He meets with her and resolves nothing (a probable outcome, realistically), and then what...she starves for a longer period of time I suppose?
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The part I find interesting is that I'm not even sure if she's invited to the meeting. It may have changed, but the first release just says that he's meeting with the First Nation assembly, which I'm not sure even includes her.
Hopefully something actually productive comes out of all this (Idle No More and the Meetin). It's pretty clear that First Nation rights in Canada need to be properly revisited and possibly reworked as a whole. If this thread is any indication of the entire situation, I don't think any Canadian (First Nations or otherwise) can honestly look at the situation and think this is the best alternative.