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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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Granted, this is the eternal problem of remote areas
In general, the larger countries is difficult to control such problems