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Originally Posted by White Doors
No, that's just politics.
I do see about the farmers protests and whatnot, but they are a inconvenience at most. I don't see them breakign the law flagrantly for weeks on end and the police sitting idly by.
Do you?
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Those people out in West Van were ignoring injunctions and whatnots for something like 5 weeks before the police moved in yesterday and had a nice chat before they finally carted them off. It must be because they are white.
Anyhow, I did one google search and came up with this...
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/...now/10_e.shtml
Aboriginal people come into conflict with the law disproportionately to their representation in the general population. While representing 2.7 per cent of Canada's population, self-identified Aboriginal people represent approximately 17 per cent of all admissions to federal institutions.
Adult Aboriginal people are incarcerated more than six times the national rate. In Saskatchewan, the adult Aboriginal incarceration rate is over 1,600 per 100,000, compared to 48 per 100,000 for adult non-Aboriginals. The number of Aboriginal offenders is expected to rise dramatically over the next decade due to the high rate of the Aboriginal youth population. Furthermore, according to data from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Homicide Survey, approximately fifteen per cent of all homicides victims in a given year were Aboriginal.
Apparently someone missed a memo somewhere along the line. If there was a (inexplicable) political decision to ignore aboriginals commiting crimes, they aren't doing a very good job of it. That's politicians though, ain't it? They never do what they say they are going to.