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Originally Posted by AcGold
The natives of Canada were screwed just about as bad as the African- American slaves or the Pygmies. A few million isn't going to change generations of abuse and mistreatment.
It'll take education of the entire society and a change in policy to help them get it together. As it is now they will never get on the right track. People love to hate on them because of their ways now but they weren't like that without the influence of the Canadian government in tandom with the church while they tried to extinguish their culture
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Ok, lets talk about that. Because the situation in Attawapsikat has as much to do with prior abuses of the government of Canada and the church as my love life has to do with global warning.
There is no link at all whatsoever. It has nothing to do with hating on Natives it has nothing do do with discrimination or racial bias.
It has everything to do with a woman that is running a massive con game and ripping off her own people and being fine with them freezing or suffering as long as she can stuff the pockets of friends and family and herself.
It has to do with her doing a massive rip off of tax payer dollars and then using age old wounds to protect herself from any kind of prosecution.
And its not like its a exception to the rule, there are too many senior chiefs and administrators out there that are far worse then Italian Mafia leaders.
But to simply say oh its about past abuses and racial crime is simply doing the same thing that Spence is doing and preventing the problem from being looked at objectively and maybe fixed.
And the government is under the same kind of paralysis and its completely wrong.
These problems can't be solved by throwing money at it. The reserve system can't be solved by increasing the budget, the problem now is systematic and needs to be looked at objectively without bringing all of the other stuff in.