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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
One of the things that is continually brought up is that FN people feel they don't have the same rights as other Canadians. It's probably time to change that and provide all FN people with the same rights as other Canadians. This would include the removal of the exceptions and additional rights granted to them though.
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Except removing those exceptions wouldn't make them equal. You're talking about formal equality, which is much different than the equality of results that are necessary to reverse years of systemic discrimination. Additionally most of these rights and exceptions were/are constitutionally guaranteed. I really wonder how many people have any understanding at all of how constitutional law works, and just exactly what is required to make the sweeping changes they're talking about. It's a logistical nightmare and that doesn't even get into the ethics of it.