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Originally Posted by polak
One of the major problems with first nations is that they don't want to abandon their land despite the fact that it may be economically unviable. I had a huge discussion about this in my Sociology of Health course. Everyone thinks that the government should just build more hospitals and infrastructure for these remote, isolated, tiny communities but they don't understand that those things cost money. Money that those communities aren't producing.
When a town is no longer economically viable, people move away and it dies. But on the reserves, they stay and hold their hand out.
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Very true for the majority of those communities I would assume, however the Canadian government does require a population in small communities typically in the far north to strengthen future claims about sovereignty and land control in the arctic. Also, you can't just take someone from Resolute Nunavut and place them in Calgary. They just won't know how to adjust. I'm no expert but I would assume it would take generations before they were able to fully integrate fully into "southern Canadian" society