[QUOTE=CaptainYooh;5092544]Progress, history, civilization, circumstances – all the usual stuff. How long do you continue to download the responsibility for aboriginal well-being onto the general population?
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I don't know how long and I have said before that if the Canada and it's native peoples want to move forward there needs to be done in a spirit of reconciliation.
That being said, if the video is to be believed the north only changed apporx 50 years ago, that is still fresh in people's minds/experience.
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What is this collective "we" thing?
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Did you not see where I said "read the Gov't", as in The Governement of Canada which is an extension/representative of Canadians.
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Did you do something awful personally? I didn't. These communities feel completely helpless now not because of lack of government help but because of over-abundance of it. If the "special" assistance was eliminated 50 years ago, we would have a lot more assimilated, developed and self-confident first nations. I am 100% sure of it.
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I actually don't disagree with you that there needs to be an assimilation/acceptance of native people in Canada. However look at this thread:
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If you're just going to sit on your ass and bitch and complain about how bad it is and do nothing but drink, do drugs and kill your neighbors, well then
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How much should be spend helping people that just literally want to sit there?
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If these two posts are reflective of the feelings of many Canadians I would suggest that there is not a willingness to assimilate the native peoples into modern day Canada.
I don't have the answer but you can't turn a society upsidedown and they blames them for all the problems that were caused when you turned them upside down.