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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The other side of it is that I really doubt that the government suddenly wants every impoverished First Nations person to suddenly take them up of free education and other assistance that would be necessary for integration.
Whether we like it or not, these communities exist and simply hoping that people decide to abandon them is never going to play out. The only choice is to develop their economies so they are sustainable, or to continually bail them out. And let's face it, some of those northern reserves have nothing to build an economy off of.
Of course, the other choice is to just let them linger and eventually die. I don't see that as a realistic option though.
The situation with the state of many of Canada's aboriginal people is complcated well past the "why don't they just move" point.
At any rate, I was commenting on Chief Louie's point of view that the government should be spending more on community develop instead of asisstance. Enticing people to leave their communities is actually the opposite of what he was talking about.
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You cannot 'make' a community sustainable, in fact the remoteness is not the cause of the unsustainability it is an effect of there not being any reason for any one to be there.