Am I the only one who thinks every single one of you misread what SebC wrote? I understood it as him saying the bad deal was turning Native Americans into 2nd class citizens by restricting them(at the time) to reserves and treating them like garbage(residential schools), resulting in a system that after 100 years is broken and needs fixed. Bad deal for Canada because we have thousands of people that we have basically wrecked, and a bad deal for the Native Americans because they are often a victim of being born into that bad deal.
Has nothing to do with thinking the Natives screwed us over, but with believing every citizen of Canada should be treated fairly and equally. Not given a piece of land and some money every year and told to make do. The whole act needs to be abolished and we need to find a way to help these people ALL be first class citizens. Not just the chiefs.
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